Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Widowhood; 2: Doña Marina Gutiérrez Flores de la Caballería Takes the Reins; 3: Doña Luisa de Estrada Challenges Escheatment of Her Encomiendas; 4: Doña Francisca de Estrada Outwits a Royal Official; 5: Doña Beatriz de Estrada Chooses Prayer; 6: Doña María de Sosa Presents Her Case to the Crown; 7: A Family of Widows in Perspective; Abbreviations Used in the Notes and References; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary
Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City