...Olga Jiménez Wagenheim The lessons taught by the life histories in Renny Golden’s book are valuable not only to Latin American scholars. The insights they offer about the courage and creativity of women in the midst of adversity would apply to any part of the world where women are struggling...

...Susan M. Socolow Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History . Edited by Yeager Gertrude M. . Wilmington : SR Books , 1994 . Notes. Bibliography. xxi, 242 pp. Cloth , $40.00 . Paper , $14.95 . Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850–1990...

...Silvia M. Arrom Franco’s book is learned, original, and provocative. Yet, despite her research in Mexican archives and historical works, it is strangely ahistorical. In emphasizing the continuity of women’s dilemma over four centuries, she overlooks the dramatic changes in women’s participation...

...Kristin Ruggiero 43 Casarini develops well this idea of the “incomplete mother” as it relates to women accused of infanticide in nineteenth-century Italy. “Infanticide [was] motivated and justified by the lack of a complete mother, that is, when only the biological part [was] there.” “Buon...

... and morality to delineate class boundaries and separate themselves from social “others.” During the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911), members of this class advocated a new cult of female domesticity in which they carefully prescribed women’s role: women were to serve as properly educated mothers...

...Susan K. Besse Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900 . By Nazzari Muriel . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1991 . Graphs. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xx , 245 pp. Cloth...

...M. J. Hardman-de-Bautista When Women Rebel: The Rise of Popular Feminism in Peru . By Andreas Carol . Westport : Lawrence Hill & Co. , 1986 . Map. Illustrations. Notes and references . Pp. xxii , 234 . Cloth . $19.95 . Paper. $12.95 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University...

...M. E. Swisher In summary, the book is worthwhile reading for Latin Americanists. It represents an important step forward in the literature about Latin America and about women in agriculture. Not least important, it is well written and intellectually stimulating. Only two serious criticisms...

...Patricia Seed The Women of Mexico City . By Arrom Silvia Marina . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1985 . Illustrations. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. xii , 384 . Cloth . $42.50 . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 In a 1977...

...David Wasserstein Dillard offers us tentative conclusions on the nature of reconquest society, on the place of women in it, and on the importance which the male participants accorded to their partners in that enterprise. This is an admirable addition to Cambridge University Press’s distinguished...

...M. Jane Slaughter Women in Cuba: Twenty Tears Later . By Randall Margaret . with photographs by Janda Judy . Brooklyn : Smyrna Press , 1981 . Illustrations. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography . Pp. 168 . Cloth . $15.95 . Paper . $6.95 . Copyright 1984 by Duke University...

... Contemporary Women Authors of Latin America: Introductory Essays . Edited by Meyer Doris and Olmos Margarite Fernández . Brooklyn : Brooklyn College Press , 1983 . Pp. viii , 103 . Paper . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 “Feminine” Testimony...

...Donald E. Worcester Encyclopedia of Bullfighting . By Conrad Barnaby . Boston , 1961 . Houghton Mifflin Co . Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 269 . Wine, Women & Toros. The Fiesta de Toros in the Culture of Spain . By Kehoe Vincent J-R . New York , 1961...

...Jane Jaquette Four Women Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba . By Lewis Oscar , Lewis Ruth M. , and Rigdon Susan M. . Chicago , 1977 . University of Illinois Press . Map. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. xxxviii , 443 . Cloth. $15.00...

...Marysa Navarro Women in Latin American History: Their Lives and Views . Edited by Hahner June E. . Los Angeles , 1976 . UCLA Latin American Center Publications . Pp. x , 181 . Paper. $7.25 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 This volume is a collection...

...Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico . By Danielle Terrazas Williams . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2022 . Illustration. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Index. xiii, 282 pp. Cloth, $65.00 . Copyright © 2023...

...Camillia Cowling The Power of Their Will: Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba . By Teresa Prados-Torreira . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2021 . Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 132 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University...

...R. Alan Covey Abstract During the Spanish colonization of the Andes, enclosures housing Inca religious women became a near-universal topic for male writers, who used women's sexuality to debate Indigenous civilization, sovereignty, and morality. Eyewitness accounts emphasized enclosed women's labor...

...Patience A. Schell [email protected] Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 . By Margaret Chowning . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2023 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 362 pp. Cloth, $45.00...

... escuchar voces silenciadas o ignoradas. En suma, se trata de un esfuerzo magnífico por reinstalar a las mujeres en la historia de la migración mexicana a Estados Unidos. [email protected] Even the Women Are Leaving: Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890–1965 . By Larisa L. Veloz . Oakland...