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Latin American Women's History

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LA MUJER, UNA INCAPAZ COMO EL DEMENTE Y EL NIÑO (SEGÚN LAS LEYES LATINOAMERICANAS). By DE MATHEUSMARÍA GABRIELA LERET. (Mexico: B. Costa-Amic Editor, 1975. Pp. 333.)
WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY. THEIR LIVES AND VIEWS. Edited by HAHNERJUNE E. (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1976. Pp. 181. $7.25.)
POWER AND PAWN. THE FEMALE IN IBERIAN FAMILIES, SOCIETIES AND CULTURES. By PESCATELLOANN M. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. Pp. 281. $15.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Asunción Lavrin
Asunción Lavrin*
Affiliation:
Howard University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1978 , pp. 314 - 318
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Copyright © 1978 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. Meri Knaster, Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times (Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1977).

2. For examples see the works of JoAnn Aviel, Elsa Chaney, Lucy Cohen, Mary Elmendorf, Cornelia Flora, Jane Jaquette, Susan Kaufman Purcell, Nora Kinzer, and Evelyn P. Stevens.

3. James Lockhart, Spanish Peru, 1532–1560: A Colonial Society (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968). For other recent printed additions to the historical literature on Latin women see the works of Elinor Burkett, Mary C. Hollander, Louisa Hoberman, Asuncion Lavrin, Cynthia Little, Anna Marías, Colin MacLachlan, Ann Pescatello, Donald Ramos (marriage and the family), and Susan Soeiro.

4. See Verena Martínez-Alier, Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974); Silvia M. Arrom, La mujer mexicana ante el divorcio eclesiástico (1800–1857) (México: SepSetentas, 1976); Charles R. Boxer, Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415–1815: Some Fact, Fancies and Personalities (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975).

5. Arrom and Martínez-Alier discuss legislation and actual cases recorded in Mexican and Cuban tribunals.