Books in the Engendering Latin America series

Presents a history of popular religion, race, and gender in colonial Mexico focusing on questions of spiritual and social rebellion and conformity. This work examines more than one hundred trials of "false mystics" whom the Mexican Inquisition prosecuted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Analyses family practices and class formation in modern Mexico by examining the ways in which family-oriented public policies and institutions affected cross-class interactions as well as relations between parents and children.

Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay are geographically linked societies in Latin America, and their female citizens have shared many similar social and legal problems. This book describes changes in gender relations and the role that feminism has played in the development and modernization of each of the three countries.

The history of Latin American women has received increased attention from scholars over the years. The history of gender relations in the region has barely begun, however, and one could say the same of the historical study of prostitution and sexuality. This book is an imaginative contribution to the literature on these topics.

The first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism.

Chronicles the life of Francisca de los Angeles (1674-1744), the daughter of a poor Creole mother and mestizo father who became a renowned holy woman in her native city of Queretaro, Mexico.

Examines the meaning of liberalism for a slave society, the tension between systems of patriarchy and patronage, and the link between language and power in a largely illiterate society.

In Buenos Aires, 1776-1870, ideological influences of the revolutionary movement combined with the practical needs of nation building to create new freedoms and new identities for women and children over the course of the nineteenth century. This book talks about these family and national struggles.

Examines the effects that liberalism had on gender relations in the process of state formation in Caracas from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, historian Arlene Diaz shows how the struggle for political power in the modern state reinforced and reproduced patriarchal authority.

Brings together a diverse set of essays exploring topics ranging from public health and child welfare to criminality and industrialisation. What these essays have in common is their gendered connection to work, family, and the rise of increasingly interventionist nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina.