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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (3): 448.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Frederick E. Kidder Hila Colman has written several short novels for teenage girls, and The Girl from Puerto Rico is intended for this audience. In the words on the jacket, “Without oversimplifying the many difficult problems, Hila Colman shows what it means to be a Puerto Rican in New York...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (1): 180–182.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Robert Henriques Girling Democratic Socialism in Jamaica: The Political Movement and Social Transformation in Dependent Capitalism . By Stephens Evelyn Huber and Stephens John D. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1986 . Tables. Notes. Appendixes. References. Index . Pp...
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in An Image of “Our Indian”: Type Photographs and Racial Sentiments in Oaxaca, 1920-1940
> Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 2004
Figure 14 “Miss Vesta surounded by Yalalteca girls,” Instituto Social Yalalag (Phot. Manuel Ramírez, 1929, courtesy of Foto Estudio Velásquez, Oaxaca).
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 391–421.
Published: 01 August 2023
... for religious women ( mamaconas ) who served in temple complexes and oversaw the gendered training of chosen girls ( acllas ) in other enclosures. New details on women's enclosures appeared at the turn of the seventeenth century, including the first accounts of Christian men of Andean descent. The Inca...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (3): 421–443.
Published: 01 August 2016
... New Spain. Raised as a girl, Aguilera upon reaching adulthood petitioned ecclesiastical authorities to order a physical inspection of his body so that he could be declared a man and marry Clara Ángela López. The essay shows how both abjection and criminality—or a discourse of “queerness”—led Aguilera...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 615–645.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... Centering the case of 13-year-old Irene Mestosini, it analyzes the prosecution of estupro cases through the paradigm of rape culture and victim blaming. It exposes how, by casting pubescent girls as malicious because of their physical and mental development, authorities blamed them for their assault while...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 559–594.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Melchor Campos García Abstract In 1870, the women's association La Siempreviva established a school for girls and a journal of the same name; it both exposed the gender gap in educational opportunities and championed women's emancipation, which challenged patriarchal norms. Yet by 1872, La...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1999) 79 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 February 1999
... and guides, young girls and boys who visited the cabarets and theaters would form the wrong impressions about appropriate female behavior. Given this situation, official investigation of vice in Mexico City centered around the figure of the prostitute and her role in both spreading disease...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (1): 45–82.
Published: 01 February 1998
... of middle-class girls from the capital city, was also a vehicle of social mobility for a significant number of young women from an artisan background and from rural areas throughout Costa Rica. Furthermore, the Colegio offered women students an enclosed, “private” space where they could rehearse the new...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 517–518.
Published: 01 August 2009
.... These conventual reforms typified other Bourbon Reforms because they were instituted as compromises. Meanwhile, a few young females were admitted to the cloisters to appease the Cuban elite. The monarchy hoped that by adopting the common life the nuns could turn their attention to educating the girls...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97 (4): 613–649.
Published: 01 November 2017
...: What primary schools for boys and girls exist in your parish? What is the status of instruction of the Christian doctrine and the catechism? What is the moral character and preparation of the teachers in charge of these schools, what persons or associations are dedicated to teaching the catechism...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 738–739.
Published: 01 November 2004
... the course of women’s lives from birth to death, but this broad scope means that many of the author’s conclusions can be considered tentative at best. A chapter on girls in Santa Fe, for example, discusses baptismal rites, naming practices, population growth, household composition, and the work...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 455–491.
Published: 01 August 2008
..., for a total order of 3 milreis. A Mr. Fingnan paid 250 milreis to have the girls make him a German flag. These and other requests are registered in Students’ Needlework, 1896 – 1897 , a book carefully kept by the sisters of the Congregation of Nossa Senhora do Amparo. They attest to the history of local...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 May 1983
..., with the express purpose of subsequently introducing it in Mexico. The novelty of this foundation lay in the fact that, for the first time, feminine education was imparted by an institution solely devoted to this task, and by personnel trained for that purpose. Previously, the instruction of girls had been...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 303–330.
Published: 01 May 2012
...” nor “habitual.” Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Early in May 1870, Ana Néri, a widow of 55 years, accompanied by several orphan girls whom she had adopted, disembarked in Rio de Janeiro on her return from the war and en route to her home province, Bahia. Five years earlier, when...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 1963
... chiefs, although declining in scope, are still important. Mapuche sons marry girls from outside their own reservation or patrilineage, with their fathers and male relatives, often in consultation with the chief, providing land for the new couple. Mapuche girls leave their reservations in order to marry...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 285–319.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to the public: Typical Jamaican staff greet visitors to Jamaican Tourist Board headquarters in Kingston. Ranging in shade from mahogany to pale pink, each is a honey—and a clipper in efficiency. . . . Said Abe: We could easily have filled the jobs with all fair-complexioned girls. But we wanted none...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 29–62.
Published: 01 February 2011
... 1853 and 1924, or as many as 5 to 9 percent of all children born in the city. At the time of Zegers’s petition, according to one calculation, 9 of every 1,000 inhabitants of Santiago were wards of the asylum. 5 Those children who survived infancy, both boys and girls, eventually became household...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 786–788.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Edwin Lieuwen America and the Third World: Revolution and Intervention . By Girling John L. S. . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1980 . Notes. Index . Pp. xii , 276 . Cloth. Copyright 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 This book is a by-product of John Girling’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 371–373.
Published: 01 May 2021
... by a female figure? She demonstrates that the joven moderna , the modern young girl described and depicted throughout the weekly magazines, penny novels, and movies of the nascent local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, deserves equal standing with the gaucho in Argentina's pantheon of tradition...
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