Shirley Cushing Flint

No Mere Shadows (eBook, ePUB)

Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 familya mother, three daughters, and a granddaughterfrom 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, influence, knowledge, and connections all come into play as the widows maneuver to hold onto property. Each of their stories illustrates an aspect of Spanish life in the New World that has heretofore been largely overlooked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826353122
• Artikelnr.: 59595048

Autorenporträt

Shirley Cushing Flint is the author of No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico, the coauthor of A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective, and the coeditor of The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (all from UNM Press).