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“As Pertaining to the Female Sex”: The Legal and Social Norms of Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Kari Zimmerman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (1): 39–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3423976
Published: 01 February 2016
...Kari Zimmerman Abstract This article analyzes how and where women participated in Brazilian commerce between 1869 and 1904. Over half of Rio de Janeiro's female population worked at the twentieth century's turn, but very little is known about women in commerce. Evidence from formal business...
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Power and Pawn: The Female in Iberian Families, Societies, and Cultures

Anna Macías
Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (4): 712–713.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-57.4.712
Published: 01 November 1977
... power or has “had access to the functions of power-broker” (p. 234). However, most of the evidence she cites and her interpretation of that data depict the female as a pawn, whether she is or has been a slave, a prostitute, a concubine, or a legally wedded wife. Ann Pescatello’s evidence for woman...
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Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru

Gertrude M. Yeager
Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 109–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1902769
Published: 01 February 2013
...Gertrude M. Yeager Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru . By Meléndez Mariselle . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 235 pp. Cloth , $55.00...
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From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

Julia Tuñón
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 382–383.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8178644
Published: 01 May 2020
...Julia Tuñón From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950 . By Susie S. Porter The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2018 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 351 pp. Paper...
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Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire

Casey Schmitt
Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 523–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-9052056
Published: 01 August 2021
...Casey Schmitt Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire . By Christine Walker . Williamsburg, VA : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . Plates. Maps. Figures...
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Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940

Marianne Schmink
Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 514–515.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-73.3.514
Published: 01 August 1993
... Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940 . By Hahner June E. . Durham : Duke University Press , 1990 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvii , 301 pp. Paper . $16.95 . ...
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Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880–1930

Nichole Sanders
Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 531–532.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-023
Published: 01 August 2009
...Nichole Sanders Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880 – 1930 . By Hayes Anne . Latin American Studies . New York : Routledge , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 227 pp. Cloth . Copyright 2009...
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Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

Elena Jackson Albarrán
Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 747–748.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-4214495
Published: 01 November 2017
...Elena Jackson Albarrán Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Anyone who has strolled the lush curves of Mexico City's Condesa neighborhood might subconsciously have internalized the way that its striking art deco architecture echoed the stylized figures of contemporary female...
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Figure 1. Female polling place.

Female polling place.

in Urban Pioneers: The Role of Women in the Local Government of Santiago, Chile, 1935–1946 > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 November 2004
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Figure I. Distribution of Celibate and Married Female Offspring among the Bahian Elite by Twenty-Year Periods. / This figure represents the number of offspring of families with daughters in the Destêrro tabulated over twenty year periods. Column 1—Average number of nuns of the black veil per family; Column 2—Average number of married daughters per family; Column 3—Average number of surviving daughters per family; Column 4—Average number of surviving offspring (male plus female) per family. / These average figures are derived from twenty-two families (1680-1700); four families (1701-1720); nine families (1721-1740); thirteen families (1741-1760).

Distribution of Celibate and Married Female Offspring among the Bahian Elit...

in The Social and Economic Role of the Convent: Women and Nuns in Colonial Bahia, 1677-1800 > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 May 1974
Figure I Distribution of Celibate and Married Female Offspring among the Bahian Elite by Twenty-Year Periods. This figure represents the number of offspring of families with daughters in the Destêrro tabulated over twenty year periods. Column 1—Average number of nuns of the black veil per family More
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Figure 2:. Average Prices in Milréis of Female Slaves in Sé Parish, 1838– 1888

Average Prices in Milréis of Female Slaves in Sé Parish, 1838– 1888

in Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808–1888 > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 1993
Figure 2: Average Prices in Milréis of Female Slaves in Sé Parish, 1838– 1888 More
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Forgotten Females: Women of African and Indian Descent in Colonial Chile, 1535-1800

Asunción Lavrin
Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-64.1.201
Published: 01 February 1984
...Asunción Lavrin Forgotten Females: Women of African and Indian Descent in Colonial Chile, 1535-1800 . By Flusche Della M. and Korth Eugene H. . Detroit : Blaine Ethridge , 1983 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. vi , 112 . Cloth . $16.50 . Copyright 1984...
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Figure 4:. Average Prices in Milréis of Self-Purchase in Salvador, 1808–1888, Females

Average Prices in Milréis of Self-Purchase in Salvador, 1808–1888, Females

in Manumission and Ethnicity in Urban Slavery: Salvador, Brazil, 1808–1888 > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 August 1993
Figure 4: Average Prices in Milréis of Self-Purchase in Salvador, 1808–1888, Females More
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All in a Day's Walk? The Gendered Geography of Native Migration in Colonial Chiapas and Guatemala

Catherine Komisaruk
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 423–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8349851
Published: 01 August 2020
... of colonial Latin American cities attracted mainly female migrants, and this article hypothesizes that people were more likely to migrate if they could make the trip between dawn and dusk. I use Google Maps, as well as colonial writings, to estimate travel times between a sample of Indian pueblos...
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Fig 3:. This Mexico City newspaper cartoon demonstrates official efforts to chart fluctuating levels of female delinquency, often equated with promiscuity. Although women could be arrested for theft, murder, and assault, as well as other criminal activities, in the 1920s and ’30s criminologists and residents of Mexico City alike tended to associate female delinquency with the prostitute’s sexually aggressive posture. Image from El Nacional (Mexico City), 19 Feb. 1939.

This Mexico City newspaper cartoon demonstrates official efforts to chart f...

in The Science of Redemption: Syphilis, Sexual Promiscuity, and Reformism in Revolutionary Mexico City > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 1999
Fig 3: This Mexico City newspaper cartoon demonstrates official efforts to chart fluctuating levels of female delinquency, often equated with promiscuity. Although women could be arrested for theft, murder, and assault, as well as other criminal activities, in the 1920s and ’30s criminologists More
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Lost Labor and Love: Adultery in Early Twentieth-Century Guatemala

David Carey, Jr.
Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (2): 229–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2870776
Published: 01 May 2015
... affairs in court suggests that much was at stake in female dalliances. Plaintiffs' pardons and judges' reluctance to rule demonstrate women's crucial contributions to households via income and labor. Since men's infidelity threatened their families' daily survival, women who initiated adultery litigation...
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Wine and Women: Grape Growers and Pulperas in Mendoza, 1561–1852

Pablo Lacoste
Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 361–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2008-329
Published: 01 August 2008
...Pablo Lacoste Abstract This article examines the role of entrepreneurial women in colonial Mendoza, a trade and transport center characterized by wine production. In other economic activities, such as cattle raising and transportation, female ownership of the local means of productions...
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Patrícias , Patriarchy, and Popular Demobilization: Gender and Elite Hegemony in Brazil at the End of the Paraguayan War

Wiebke Ipsen
Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 303–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1545701
Published: 01 May 2012
... ” (mother of Brazilians), her embodiment of the female virtues of tenderness, caring, and self-sacrifice made her the perfect exemplar of the patricias’ movement and of delicate citizenship. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Early in May 1870, Ana Néri, a widow of 55 years, accompanied...
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Unveiling the Virgin: Maya Marianism on the Eve of the 1712 Tzeltal Revolt

Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara
Hispanic American Historical Review 11676606.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11676606
Published: 30 December 2024
... of eighteenth-century Mesoamerican Marianism and Indigenous Christianities: religious exchanges and dialogues between distinct Maya ethnolinguistic groups, Nahua societies, and Spanish missionaries; gender complementarity and female religious leadership; and struggles for collective renewal and rebirth...
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En nombre del hogar proletario : Engendering the 1917 Great Railroad Strike in Argentina

Silvana Alejandra Palermo
Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (4): 585–620.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2351647
Published: 01 November 2013
... to community mobilization and family support in this labor protest. This study offers a fresh approach to this massive social conflict by reconstructing female public participation in its events. The study also takes gender as a category for analyzing the cultural meanings of sexual difference, which shaped...
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