required readings

The following books are books are on order at the University Bookstore, and are required texts.

  • Mangan, Jane. Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

  • Schroeder, Susan. Ed. Indian Women of Early Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

  • Seed, Patricia. To Love Honor and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

  • Tortorici, Zeb. Ed. Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016.

Additional readings are available either through the library catalogue or as pdfs in a course folder on Dropbox. (You do not need dropbox to access these files, but if you have it, you can save them to your dropbox folder.)

schedule

Week 1: Introduction

Thursday (Jan 12)

Reading:

Week 2: Gender and History

Tuesday (Jan 17) The study of women and gender in history

Reading:

  1. Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988. (Chapter 1 “Women’s History;” Chapter 2 “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”)

  2. Handouts on the use of primary and secondary sources.

Thursday (Jan 19) Discussion

Reading:

  1. Jeanne Boydston, “Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis,” Gender & History 20.3 (Nov 2008): 558-583.

  2. Perry, Mary Elizabeth. “With Stones and Roasting Spits: Moriscas and a Multidisciplinary Methodology for Studying Women in Golden Age Spain.” In Disciplines on the Line: Feminist Research on Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latina Women, ed. Ann J. Cruz, et.al. Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2003 (59-78).

Week 3: The Andes

Reading:

Tuesday (Jan 24) Gender and class in Inka society

  1. Burkett, Elinor. “Indian Women and White Society: The Case of Sixteenth-Century Peru.” In Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives, ed. Asunción Lavrin. Conn: Greenwood Press, 1978.

  2. Salomon, Frank. “Indian Women of Early Colonial Quito as Seen Through Their Testaments.” The Americas 44:3 (Jan. 1988), 325-341.

Thursday (Jan 26) Andean women in the documentary record

Reading:

  1. Silverblatt, Irene. “Andean Women Under Spanish Rule.” In Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives. Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock, eds. New York: Praeger Press, 1980.

  2. Primary Sources. Selections from:

    • Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca. Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru. Translator: Harold V. Livermore. Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1989 [1609].

    • Guaman Poma de Ayala. El Primer Nuevo Cronica y Buen Gobierno. Translators: John V. Murra, et. al. Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 1992 [1615]. (Text and Drawings)

Week 4: Mesoamerica

Tuesday (Jan 31) Gender, work, and myth in Mesoamerica

Reading:

  1. Schroeder, et.al., Chapters 1, 2, 5.

Thursday (Feb 2) Mexica women in the documentary record

Reading:

  1. Joyce, Rosemary A. “Gender, Performance, Power, and Reproduction” and “Becoming Human: Body and person in Aztec Tenochtitlan.” In Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica. Austin: University of Texas, 2000.

  2. Primary source selections:

    • “Nahuatl Speeches and Dialogues,” Selections from the “Tetzcoco Dialogues” and the Florentine Codex, Book VI.

Week 5: The Spains

Tuesday (Feb 7) Spanish Society

Reading:

  1. Poska, Allyson. 1996. “When Love Goes Wrong: Getting out of Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Spain,” Journal of Social History 29.4: 873-882.

  2. Behrend-Martinez, Edward. “Manhood and the Neutered Body in Early Modern Spain.” Journal of Social History 38, no. 4 (2005): 1073-1093.

Thursday (Feb 9) Legal, economic, and political status of women

Reading:

  1. Poska, Allyson. 2004. “Elusive Virtue: Rethinking the Role of Female Chastity in Early Modern Spain,” Journal of Early Modern History 8:1-2 (January): 135-146.

  2. Taylor, Scott. “Credit, Debt, and Honor in Castile, 1600-1650” Journal of Early Modern History 7:1-2 (January 2003), 8-27.

Week 6: Africa

DUE – APPROVED TOPIC FOR HISTORIOGRAPHY PAPER

Tuesday (Feb 14) Africa in diaspora

Reading:

  1. Lane, Kris. Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave Life in Early Colonial Quito and Popayan.” The Americas 57:2 (Oct. 2000), 225-246.

  2. Thornton, John. “Slavery and African Social Structure.” In Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998 (72-98).

Thursday (Feb 16) Slavery and Free Blacks in the Americas

  1. Townsend, Camilla. “Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil.” In The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America, ed. Kenneth J. Andrien. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002, (293-306).

  2. Primary Documents.

    • Selections from: Conrad, Robert Edgar. Children of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983.
    • Socolow, Susan Migden. “Permission to Marry: Eighteenth-Century Matrimonial Files.” In Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850, ed. Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000 (236-248).

Week 7: A Film

Tuesday (Feb 21) – I, Worst of All, Part I

Thursday (Feb 23) – No class.

Week 8: Film, Exam, Meetings

Tuesday (Feb 28) Finish Sor Juana

no readings.

Thursday (Mar 2) individual meetings with Dr. Black

Meetings with Dr. Black on Wednesday or Thursday. (See doodle poll)

DUE OVER EMAIL – EXAM 1

Week 9: Spanish, Indigenous, Colonial Gender Norms

Tuesday (Mar 7) Masculinity, Femininity, Empire

Reading:

  1. Chad Black, “Introduction: Governance, Legal Culture, Gender”

Thursday (Mar 9) Cross-cultural comparisons of gender norms

  1. Schroeder, et. al., Chapters 3,4,7

Week 10: Spring Break, like finally!!

Have a nice Spring Break! Keep an eye on upcoming readings. Some extra credit available for observations on the operation of class and gender of your spring break experiences.

Please not that next week, all of Patricia Seed’s book is due to be read. There will be quizzes.

Week 11: Marriage and Family

Tuesday (Mar 21) Marriage, Church, family structure

Read the whole book by Patricia Seed. That’s right. The WHOLE THING!!!

Thursday (Mar 23) No class. Going to SECOLAS

Week 12: Sexuality and Society I

Tuesday (Mar 28) Sexuality and social control

  1. Lavrin, Asunción. “Sexuality in Colonial Mexico: A Church Dilemma.” In Sexuality & Marriage in Colonial Latin America, ed. Asunción Lavrin.
  2. Holler, “The Devil or Nature Itself? Desire, Doubt, and Diabolical Sex among Colonial Mexican Women,” Chapter Three in Sexuality and the Unnatural

Thursday (Mar 30) Honor, Shame, and the slightly sullied

  1. Lauderdale Graham, Sandra. “Honor among Slaves.” In The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America, ed. Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2000 (201-228).

  2. Twinam, Ann. “The Negotiation of Honor: Elites, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America. In The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America, ed. Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2000 (68-102).

  3. Primary Source: Boyer, Richard. “Catarina María Complains that Juan Teioa Forcibly Deflowered Her.”

Week 13: Sexuality and Society II

Tuesday (April 4) Nature and Sin

Read:

  1. Chapters 6-7 in Sexuality and the Unnatural

Thursday (April 6)

HISTORIOGRAPHY PAPER DUE

Read:

  1. Chapters 8-9 in Sexuality and the Unnatural

Week 14: Witchcraft and Women’s Culture

Tuesday (Apri 11) Delusion, fraud, or diabolism

  1. Behar, Ruth. “Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women’s Powers: Views from the Mexican Inquisition.” In Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America, ed. Asunción Lavrin. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1992 (178-206).

  2. Few, Martha. “Women, Religion, and Power: Gender and Resistance in Daily Life in Late-Seventeenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala.” Ethnohistory 42:4 (Autumn 1995), 627-637).

Thursday (Apr 13) Under the spell of women

  1. Selections from Guaman Poma de Ayala. El Primer Nuevo Cronica y Buen Gobierno. Translators: John V. Murra, et. al. Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 1992 [1615].

  2. Few, Martha. “On Her Deathbed, Marìa de la Candelaria Accuses Michaela de Molina of Casting Spells.” In Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850, ed. Richard Boyer. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000 (166-177).

Week 15: Monasterios y conventos

Tuesday (Apr 18) Get thee to a nunnery

  1. Myers, Kathleen A. “The Mystic Triad in Colonial Mexican Nuns’ Discourse: Divine Author, Visionary Scribe, and Clerical Mediator.” Colonial Latin American Historical Review 6:4 (Fall 1997).

Thursday (Apr 20) Fringes of sainthood

  1. van Deusen, Nancy E. “Defining the Sacred and the Worldly: Beatas and Recogidas in Late-Seventeenth-Century Lima.” Colonial Latin American Historical Review 6:4 (Fall 1997).

  2. Holler, Jacqueline. “The Spiritual and Physical Ecstasies of a Sixteenth-Century Beata: Marina de San Miguel Confesses Before the Mexican Inquisition.” In Colonial Lives, Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850, ed. Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000 (77-100).

Week 16: Who sells what?

Tuesday (Apr 18) Hawkers, chicheras, shopkeepers

Thursday (Apr 20) Honor, credit, court

  1. Finish Trading Roles

The Malinche Controversy – Gender, Politics, Identity

Sources for your final paper:

  1. Schroeder, et. al. Indian Women, Chapter 14.

  2. Brimingham-Pokorny, Elba D. “La Malinche: A Feminist Perspective on Otherness in Mexican and Chicano Literature.” Confluencia 11:2 (1996).

  3. “Spanish Views of the Conquest”: selections from Bernal Diáz de Castillo

  4. “Indigenous Views of Conquest”: selections from the Florentine Codex, Book 12, and the Annals of Tlatelolco

  5. Karttunen, Frances. Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors. New Brunswick: Rutgers U. Press, 1994. (From Chapter 1 “Three Guides” and Epilogue “Their Children”)

  6. Paz, Octavio. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1961. (Chapter 4 “The Sons of La Malinche”)

FINAL PAPER ON MALINTZIN DUE BY 2:30pm MAY 4th!!!