ISBN:
9780896729339
,
0896729338
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Women, gender, and the West
Series Statement:
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
DDC:
305.4097209/033
Keywords:
Geschichte 1750-1846
;
Grenzgebiet
;
Frau
;
Testament
;
Soziale Situation
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
Patriarchy Social aspects
;
History
;
Material culture History
;
Wills History
;
Women Social conditions
;
Hispanic American women Social conditions
;
Women History 19th century
;
Women History 18th century
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
;
LAW / Wills
;
HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
;
Mexiko
;
Mexican American Border Region Economic conditions
;
Mexican American Border Region Religious life and customs
;
Mexican American Border Region Social conditions
Abstract:
"In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Bexar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious salvation. Wills like Estrada's reveal much about women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as main sources, Amy M. Porter explores the ways in which these documents reveal details about religion, family, economics, and material culture. In addition, the wills speak loudly to the difficulties of frontier life, in which widowhood and child mortality were commonplace. Most importantly, information in the wills helps to explain the workings of the patriarchal system of Spanish and Mexican borderland communities, showing that gender role divisions were fluid in some respects. Supplemented by censuses, inventories, court cases, and travelers' accounts, women's wills paint a more complete picture of life in the borderlands than the previously male-dominated historiography of the region"--...
Abstract:
""Examines the religion, family, economics, and material culture of women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities in 1750-1846 through women's wills. The wills help to explain the workings of the patriarchal system in the Spanish and Mexican borderland communities"--...
URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/41150
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