The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

442 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES legitimacy from the ancestry of both their fathers and their mothers, although pa- tri ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 443 Figure 12.2 Ñudzahui husband and wife rulers sitting in an egalitarian fashion on ...

444 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Figure 12.3 In addition to domestic responsibilities such as weaving (left), Mexica wo ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 445 cessful delivery of an infant equivalent to a warrior’s taking a prisoner. A moth ...

446 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 12.1 Aztec Women and Ritual Sweeping Sweeping, cooking, and weaving had important ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 447 suggesting that, for the Spaniards the phallus was the extension of the sword. In ...

448 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES children. Two centuries after the arrival of the Spaniards, Aztec women’s identity had ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 449 lationships. In this way, society rationalized women’s need for “protection” by f ...

450 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES morality were called into question. Given the choice, they might have elected the path ...

women were best suited to passive contemplation rather than to intellectual analy- sis, the purview of men (Franco 1989). Also, ...

Box 12.2 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1988) Silly, you men—so very adept at wrongly faulting womankind, not seeing you’re alone to ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 453 Around the time of the trial in June 1712, María López, a young woman in the Tzel ...

454 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES that they played active roles in the independence movement, although it is difficult t ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 455 Women’s Participation in the Mexican Revolution Women’s participation in the Mexi ...

456 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Women’s groups began to emerge in the 1920s. One was the Consejo Feminista Mexicano(Me ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 457 Lázaro Cárdenas’s ascent to power in 1934 brought the promise of new possi- bilit ...

458 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES communities; and second, because most indigenous women in highland Chiapas were, and c ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 459 those living in traditional contexts) than among mestizos or ladinos. Although in ...

460 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES women are barred from civil office, the joint participation of husband and wife in the ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 461 way to live. Traditionalists are concerned to preserve land and community, wherea ...