Gender Latin Am

Question 1

Luis Martín

Answer 1

Daughters of the Conquistadores: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru
women in Peru who were “daughters of the conquistadors” not because they descended from specific male conquerors but because they were descended, in essence, from Spain
Don Juanism
Marianism
courtly and romantic love

Question 2

Richard Trexler

Answer 2

Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas

“how do gender and conquest intermix?”

explores the connection between political and sexual exploitation in conquest
describes and analyzes American homosexual practices and Native American transvestism primarily found in Spanish descriptions.

Question 3

Eva Mendieta

Answer 3

In Search of Catalina de Erauso: The National and Sexual Identity of the Lieutenant Nun
life of a woman who cross-dressed as a man
A Basque
exhibited heroic feats and earned honor on the field of battle

Question 4

Della M Flusche and Eugene H. Korth

Answer 4

Forgotten Females: Women of African and Indian Descent in Colonial Chile, 1535-180
chronicle the female experience.
African and Indian
non-white women took, initiative

Question 5

Kathryn Burns

Answer 5

Colonial habits: convents and the spiritual economy of Cuzco, Peru.
economic power of nuns and convents
were integral to the transmission of Spanish culture and that they created a spiritual economy by loaning money to the local farms and businesses

Question 6

Sueann Caulfield

Answer 6

History of Gender in the Historiography of Latin America

Question 7

Asuncion Lavrin - sexuality and marriage

Answer 7

Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America, advocates for study of marriage from the standpoint of emotions, love, religion and sexuality

Question 8

Asuncion Lavrin - feminism

Answer 8

Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940, argues that there was “not one feminism, but a diversity of female-sensitive answers to the problems experienced by women of several social strata.”

Question 9

Nancy Van Deusen

Answer 9

The Souls of Purgatory: The Spiritual Diary of a Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic, Ursula de Jesús, published in 2004, brings to light the spiritual diary of a woman, or donada, who labored in a convent

Question 10

Susan Socolaw

Answer 10

The Women of Colonial Latin America. Socolaw presents a synthesis of the gender “roles and rules” of life in colonial Latin America for women. She explores sexuality, marriage, family, religion, work, social deviance and slavery for Iberian, African, and Indian women.

Question 11

Muriel Nazzari

Answer 11

Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social change in São Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900, published in 1991, chronicles changes in the system of marriage amongst property owning families which called for women to bring a dowry when married that led to its eventual decline.

Question 12

Steve Stern

Answer 12

The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico, published in 1997, studies the interaction between power and gender during the late colonial period in Mexican popular culture.

Question 13

Jeffrey Shumway

Answer 13

The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870
tell stories of family, marriage and the beginning of Argentina. These family stories of the average common people/the formation of the Argentine nation

Question 14

Matthew Gutmann

Answer 14

The Meaning of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City, delivers a new analysis of masculinity that contests anthropological conclusions about Mexican working class men whereas the “typical Mexican man” was often portrayed as a hard drinking, philandering macho, that image largely ignored the activities of fatherhood