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Hispanic American Historical Review (1944) 24 (2): 314–315.
Published: 01 May 1944
...George P. Hammond Life in Old Tucson, 1854-1864, as Remembered by the Little Maid, Atanacia Santa Cruz . By Lockwood Frank C. . [ Published by the Tucson Civic Committee .] ( Los Angeles : The Ward Ritchie Press , 1943 . Pp. xx , 255 . Illustrations. No index . $2.50...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 455–491.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha Abstract Based on the administrative records of the Escola Doméstica Nossa Senhora do Amparo and trials involving cases of violence between bosses and maids in domestic space, this essay discusses the emergence of a moral consciousness and a pedagogic discourse about...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (4): 760–761.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and philanthropy, contending that the former feminized the economy by offering little to male workers while the latter “reproduced the very structural conditions that exacerbated poverty” (p. 150). The chapter is both fascinating and problematic. While the author illustrates how expats paid their maids unfairly...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 97–128.
Published: 01 February 2011
... helps them in the kitchen. 6 Doña Petrona and Juanita’s public portrayal of a typically private relationship between a patrona and her empleada (a mistress and her maid) both shaped and was shaped by broader patterns of domesticity in Argentina during the 1950s and 1960s. As in the United...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11684242.
Published: 30 December 2024
... the urry of grassroots politics during Brazil s return to democracy is crucial to understanding the situation in which maids, nannies, cooks, and cleaners nd themselves today. According to a 2023 study by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geogra a e Estat´ stica, nearly six million Brazilians work in domestic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (2): 294–295.
Published: 01 May 1995
... by convenience. In almost every case, the informants came to the author’s home or office. They included the maids from his home and workplace, a chauffeur from nearby, and a department manager from a local supermarket. When the author did not stumble onto migrants in his neighborhood, their names were supplied...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 576–577.
Published: 01 August 1996
... and cultural milieu. Yet the author herself disappoints in this regard: young Olga’s concerns and experiences seldom reflect an especially female perspective. An exception (and in my view, the book’s most fascinating passage) is a sketch of the family’s maid in El Paso that records her “incomprehensible...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 566–567.
Published: 01 August 2009
... reasons. Even for men, introspection about gender relations sparked a challenge to prevailing norms. As one male activist said, “I decided that having trysts with the maids was counterrevolutionary” (p. 319). That women’s role in politics was sexualized is a perfect example of how traditional analyses...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2011
... and toward domestic service. “Domestic and reproductive labor was a resource allocated at the level of the individual household between men and women, adults and children, and mistresses and maids,” she explains. “But there was also a societal allocation of domestic labor across social groups...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 350–352.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., the discourse of “el problema del indio” was current, and Mayas worked in the city. Urban ladinas no doubt saw Maya women who worked as maids everyday. Harms's work invites us to consider how feminism can square with racism. ...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (2): 342–343.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., owners, and managers but also small businesspeople, truck farmers, ranchers, bar owners, prostitutes, maids, and other women and children — considered this borderland a unitary homeland. At the time of the Mexican-American War it belonged to truly non-national groups of Indians, notably Apaches...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 May 2000
... juxtaposes one entry, “Xuxa and the Televisual Imaginary,” analyzing the blond superstar, with “My Life,” the biography of a poor Afro-Brazilian woman who rose from being a maid to being a middle-class woman. “Race and Ethnic Relations” makes the myth of racial democracy more complicated and vivid through...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 731–732.
Published: 01 November 2014
... immigration into Spain, Daniela Flesler and N. Michelle Shepherd document a disheartening dimension of this ongoing circulation of peoples and cultures. They argue persuasively that Latin American nannies and maids, “many of whom have left their children in their countries of origin, allow middle-class...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (3): 546–547.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., most sought work in Hidalgo state. Later, migrants ventured to Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Tijuana. Men worked in construction, and, if close enough, they returned home on weekends. Women generally worked as live-in maids. They recall being underpaid but also gaining confidence and Spanish-language...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (1): 35–72.
Published: 01 February 2021
... was not easy; property owners—or their proxies, like a maid or a hotel manager—could deny entry, as they often did. Inspectors had to be equal parts attentive, creative, and tenacious. Inspectors would conduct surveillance to confirm suspicions and document the extent of clandestine pilfering. In 1913...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 385–387.
Published: 01 May 2000
..., Carolina joined the vast mid-century rural exodus to the urban industrial centers that unsettled Brazil and the Americas as a whole. In 1936, when Bitita’s Diary ends, Carolina had just moved to São Paulo where she found work as a maid, cook, scavenger, and, famously, a diarist. Her penchant...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (1): 29–62.
Published: 01 February 2011
... and children, and mistresses and maids. But there was also a societal allocation of domestic labor across social groups. 6 Domestic labor circulated across households of different class statuses and across rural and urban spaces. As it did so, it benefited the social reproduction of some groups...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 May 2007
... husband, but by 1821 she was a widow and lived with a teenage maid, the maid’s own infant daughter, and the maid’s two soldier brothers. 30 One might think that a young widow’s plight was precarious. Yet the census taker did not think so; he placed her at the head of the household, common enough...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (3): 344–359.
Published: 01 August 1967
... to America as ladies’ maids or as members of the large and varied entourages that customarily accompanied wealthy families emigrating to the colonies. Such was the position of Quiteria Gómez, a former slave, who with three other servants—one white male and two white females—traveled with the widow Francisca...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 41–74.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of eclectic commodities including canopies, a Mexican cotton cloth, a bed, mattresses and blankets, silver vases and boxes, and two pairs of carved wooden vases from Cuzco that she brought to her marriage. She left her Indian maid an ordinary dress and her male servant some money and two shirts that were...
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