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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967163303321

Autore

Lipsett-Rivera Sonya <1961->

Titolo

Gender and the negotiation of daily life in Mexico, 1750-1856 / / Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613664501

9781280687563

1280687568

9780803240339

0803240333

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

The Mexican experience

Disciplina

972/.02

Soggetti

Sex role - Mexico

Human body - Social aspects - Mexico

Mexico Civilization 18th century

Mexico Civilization 19th century

Mexico Social life and customs 18th century

Mexico Social life and customs 19th century

Mexico Social conditions 18th century

Mexico Social conditions 19th century

Outer space Social aspects Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Negotiating daily life -- Space and Mexican society -- Behind closed doors -- Beyond the door -- The body in daily life -- The head, honor, and aggression -- Power, sex, hair, and clothes -- Culture, honor, and gender in Mexico.

Sommario/riassunto

History is not just about great personalities, wars, and revolutions; it is also about the subtle aspects of more ordinary matters. On a day-to-day basis the aspects of life that most preoccupied people in late eighteenth- through mid nineteenth-century Mexico were not the political machinations of generals or politicians but whether they themselves could make a living, whether others accorded them the



respect they deserved, whether they were safe from an abusive husband, whether their wives and children would obey them-in short, the minutiae of daily life. Sonya Lipsett-Ri