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...Olga Jiménez Wagenheim The Hour of the Poor, the Hour of Women: Salvadoran Women Speak . By Golden Renny . New York : Crossroad , 1991 . Photographs. Map. Notes. Glossary. Index . 207 pp. Cloth . $19.95 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Renny Golden’s book...

...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...

...Gregg Bocketti Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America . By Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2019 . Photographs. Figures. Notes...

...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...

... models from the Cuban experience. Nevertheless, the wealth of material cited will make their book an obligatory reference source for future studies. The chapters on insurrection and day care are the strongest. The former poignantly suggests how women’s involvement has been downplayed in virile...

... down the reader, but they provide valuable information for those interested in labor history. Tiano’s study is more specialized, but that of Bose and Acosta-Belén covers a wide enough range to make it useful in a course on Latin American women. Although the essays vary widely in the depth...

...Dawn Keremitsis Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940 . By Lavrin Asunción . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1995 . Plates. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 480 pp. Cloth . $60.00 . Copyright 1997 by Duke...

...Martha Few Indian Women of Early Mexico . Edited by Schroeder Susan , Wood Stephanie , and Haskett Robert . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1997 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 486 pp. Cloth , $29.95 . Copyright 1999 by Duke...

..., Camillia Cowling's well-written and deeply researched book takes an original approach to the vast topic of slavery and its abolition. She delves into significant themes and utilizes the comparative framework to elucidate her arguments. Cowling focuses on the agency of slave women in both Cuba and Brazil...

...Barbara A. Sommer Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500–1822 . By Myscofski Carole A. . Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 308 pp. Cloth...

...Richard J. Walter Copyright 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 When Socialist Ricardo Lagos assumed the presidency of Chile in January 2000, he named five women to his 16-member cabinet. While these five appointments were primarily to ministries that dealt with “women’s issues...

...Karen Mead Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880–1955 . By Guy Donna J. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2009 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 252 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Paper $22.95 . Copyright 2010...

...Sarah L. Franklin Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s . By Walker D. J. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 158 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright 2010 by Duke...

...Marie Woodling Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader . Edited by Segura Denise A. and Zavella Patricia . Latin America Otherwise . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 595 pp. Cloth , $99.95...

...Michael J. Pisani Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana . By Prieto Norma Iglesias . Translated by Stone Michael with Winkler Gabrielle . Foreword by Selby Henry . Translations from Latin America Series . Austin : Institute...

...D.J.G. Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times . By Knaster Meri . Boston , 1977 . G. K. Hall & Co . Indices . Pp. liii , 696 . Cloth. $38.00 . Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Meri Knaster’s annotated...

...C. C. G. Amanda Laborea H.: Educator to the Women of Chile. The Work and Writings of Amanda Labarca H. in the Field of Education in Chile . By Paul Catharine Manny . Cuernavaca, Mexico , 1968 . Centro Intercultural de Documentacion . Cuaderno 1 . Bibliography . Pp. 195 . Paper...

... emphases in other areas. For example, a partial consequence of investigations into social and economic topics has been a surge of interest in the history of hitherto neglected groups such as blacks, Indians and women. Since few women have had the opportunity to record their own history, the archives...