Author: Miroslava Ch‡vez-Garc’aPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816526000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"This study examines the ways in which Mexican and Native women challenged the patriarchal traditional culture of the Spanish, Mexican , and early American eras in California, tracing the shifting contingencies surrounding their lives from the imposition of Spanish Catholic colonial rule in the 1770s to the ascendancy of Euro-American Protestant capitalistic society in the 1880s." -from the book cover.
