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Refusing the favor : the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880
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Refusing the favor : the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880

Author: Deena J González
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the effects of colonization, looking closely at how the women lived both before and after the United States took control of the region."--BOOK JACKET.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Deena J González
ISBN: 019507890X 9780195078909
OCLC Number: 40255841
Description: xx, 186 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Women in the Courts Conformity and Dissonance before the War, 1821-1846 --
2. Women under Siege: Sexuality and the Gendered Economics of Colonization, 1840-1852 --
3. Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846-1880 --
4. The Politics of Disidentification and Recuperation: Notations about the "New" Western American History.
Responsibility: Deena J. González.
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This work unveils a method for understanding how Mexico's northern land, New Mexico, came under the authority of the United States and what role women played in the political game of takeover.  Read more...

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