Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2756
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2756
Book Description
Weaving the Past
Author: Susan KelloggPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198040422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women. The book provides broad coverage of gender roles in native Latin America over many centuries, drawing upon a range of evidence from archaeology, anthropology, religion, and politics. Primary and secondary sources include chronicles, codices, newspaper articles, and monographic work on specific regions. Arguing that Latin America's indigenous women were the critical force behind the more important events and processes of Latin America's history, Kellogg interweaves the region's history of family, sexual, and labor history with the origins of women's power in prehispanic, colonial, and modern South and Central America. Shying away from interpretations that treat women as house bound and passive, the book instead emphasizes women's long history of performing labor, being politically active, and contributing to, even supporting, family and community well-being.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Author: Emilie L. BergmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131704164X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent scholarly attention., focused on complexities of female authorship in the political, religious, and intellectual context of colonial New Spain. This volume examines those areas of scholarship that illuminate her work, including her status as an iconic figure in Latin American and Baroque letters, popular culture in Mexico and the United States, and feminism. By addressing the multiple frameworks through which to read her work, this research guide serves as a useful resource for scholars and students of the Baroque in Europe and Latin America, colonial Novohispanic religious institutions, and women’s and gender studies. The chapters are distributed across four sections that deal broadly with different aspects of Sor Juana's life and work: institutional contexts (political, economic, religious, intellectual, and legal); reception history; literary genres; and directions for future research. Each section is designed to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the current state of the research on those topics and the academic debates within each field.
Exploring the Middle Ages
Author: Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761476139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive, illustrated reference of the period in world history known as the Middle Ages, encompassing both the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
Cuban Art in the 20th Century
Author: Segundo J. FernandezPublisher: Fsu Museum of Fine Arts
ISBN: 9781889282329
Category : Art, Cuban
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cuban Art in the Twentieth Century is an historical progression of works by important artists from a complex modern movement described by several discrete periods: Colonial, Early Republic, First Generation, Second Generation, Third Generation, Late Modern, and Contemporary Periods. The Cuban modern art movement consists of a loose group of artists, divided into generations, who counted on the moral support of an intellectual elite and who had minimal economic help from the private and public sectors. In spite of a fragile infrastructure, this art movement, along with similar movements in literature and music, played a major role in defining Cuban culture in the twentieth century.
Remembering Che
Author: Aleida MarchPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1644212064
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Che Guevara’s widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Bolivia. When Aleida March first met Che Guevara, she was a twenty-year-old combatant from the provinces of Cuba, he an already legendary revolutionary and larger-than-life leader. And yet there was another, more human side to Che, one Aleida was given special access to, first as his trusted compañera and later as the love of his life. With great immediacy and poignancy, Aleida recounts the story of their epic romance—their fitful courtship against the backdrop of the Cuban revolutionary war, their marriage at the war’s end and the birth of their four children, up through Che’s tragic assassination in Bolivia less than ten years later. Featuring excerpts from their letters, nearly one hundred never-before-seen photographs from their private collection, and a moving short story Che wrote for Aleida, here is an intimate look at the man behind the legend and the tenacious, courageous woman who knew him best—a story of passionate love, wrenching sacrifice, and unwavering heroism.
Preventive Maintenance for Administrative Vehicles
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Divine Narcissus
Author: Sister Juana Inés de la CruzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Echo (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, known as "The Tenth Muse" of America, has been widely anthologized as a poet, intellectual, and defender of women's rights. Her calling as a nun, often overlooked, is clear in THE DIVINE NARCISSUS, an allegory ostensibly written to explain Christian concepts to the Aztecs whose plight under colonization it also dramatizes. This is the first English translation of this revealing work.
The Sarva Darsana Samgraha, or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy
Author: Madhava AcharyaPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385407095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.