TY - BOOK AU - Flint,Shirley Cushing TI - No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico SN - 9780826353122 AV - HQ1058.5.M6 F55 2013 U1 - 306.88/3097209031306.883097209031 PY - 2013/// CY - Albuquerque, NM PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Widows KW - Mexico KW - Social conditions KW - 16th century KW - Economic conditions KW - Married women KW - Veuves KW - Mexique KW - Conditions sociales KW - 16e siècle KW - Conditions économiques KW - Femmes mariées KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Sociology KW - Marriage & Family KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - 16e siecle KW - ram KW - Jusqu'à 1810 KW - Femmes KW - Veuvage KW - To 1810 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=508788 ER -