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

• Autore: Lipsett-Rivera Sonya <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 972/.02
• Soggetto topico: Sex role - Mexico; Human body - Social aspects - Mexico
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and the negotiation of daily life in Mexico, 1750-1856
• ISBN: 9786613664501; 1-280-68756-8; 0-8032-4033-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790125503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mexican experience.