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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing research--a MUST-READ for gender scholars and scholars who hate 'gender',
By Kyris (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico (Paperback)
For those who love 'gender' as a lens through which to analyze other social processes (warfare, citizenship, empire- or nation- formation, etc.) this may not be the book for you: this is an actual analysis of Gender itself. The author looks at the relations between men and women in peasant communities in Mexico, using concrete examples of real families that went through the justice system. But not just husbands-wives--he addresses daughters-parents (mother/father), sisters-brothers, AND fathers-sons, brothers-brothers... Priests-parishioners... he really looks at patriarchy as a system that organized society NOT as static and merely oppressive, but dynamic and unstable. And he looks at how patriarchy not only organized men-women relations, but relations between the rich and poor AND politics and power, in the most convincing way I have read so far. It's GREAT in that regard--but getting through the INSANELY NUMEROUS examples and statistics gets pretty tiresome...
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The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico by Steve J. Stern (Paperback - February 26, 1997)
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