Title: Refusing the favor : the Spanish-Mexican women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 /
Authors: González, Deena J., 1952-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Mexican American women New Mexico Santa Fe History; Mexican American women New Mexico Santa Fe Social conditions; Santa Fe (N.M.) Ethnic relations.; Santa Fe (N.M.) Social conditions.; Santa Fe (N.M.) Colonization History
Abstract: "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."--Jacket.
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.