Shirley Cushing Flint

No Mere Shadows

Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico

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Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City. Shirley Cushing Flint has used archival research to tell the stories of five women in the Estrada family-a mother, three daughters, and a granddaughter-from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520 until the 1580s. Each was once married and when widowed chose not to remarry. Their stories illustrate the constraints placed upon them both as women and as widows by the religious, secular, and legal cultures of the time and how each refused to be bound by those constraints.Money,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8263-5312-2
EAN: 9780826353122
Produktnummer: 34255659
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'806 KB

Über den Autor

Shirley Cushing Flint is coeditor and coauthor of The Latest Word from 1540: People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition, The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years, and Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542. She and her husband and collaborator, Richard Flint, live in Villanueva, New Mexico.