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Author Flint, Shirley Cushing.

Title No Mere Shadows : Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico
Published Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Widows -- Mexico -- Social conditions -- 16th century
Widows -- Mexico -- Economic conditions -- 16th century
Married women -- Mexico -- Social conditions -- 16th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
Married women -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Widows -- Economic conditions
Widows -- Social conditions
Moeurs et coutumes -- Mexique -- 16e siecle.
Conditions sociales -- Mexique -- Jusqu'à 1810.
Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- 16e siecle.
Veuvage -- Mexique -- 16e siecle.
SUBJECT Mexico -- Social conditions -- To 1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084619
Subject Mexico
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012034767
ISBN 9780826353122
0826353126
0826353118
9780826353115
9781299312166
1299312160