Thursday, September 28, 2006
When first encountering Wilson’s use of the word (mis) recognition, I sort of passed it over, thinking I would understand later in the text exactly what she meant by it. I proceeded with the rest of the chapter, picking up her points piece by piece, or so I thought, until on the very last [...]
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Hahner, June. Women in Latin American History. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications; 1980.
Pablos, Julia. Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled. Austin: University of Texas Press; 1999.
Pallis, Micheal. Slaves of Slaves: The Challenge of Latin American Women. London: Zed Press; 1977.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Call # JFE 01-11373
Author Socolow, Susan Migden, 1941-
Title The women of colonial Latin America / Susan Migden Socolow.
Imprint Cambridge, UK : New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Call # JFE 05-5989
Author Powers, Karen Vieira, 1950-
Title Women in the crucible of conquest : the gendered genesis of Spanish American society, [...]
Monday, September 25, 2006
In the quest for any woman in history–be that person, type or behavior—I think the most important thing to remember (and to what Suzanne Dixon is referring) is that the historiography that exists for these women has been entirely conceived by men. It is because of this simple fact that the texts available to [...]
Thursday, September 21, 2006
It has been a popular question to ask lately (or perhaps it has always been a popular question but lately has been receiving new answers) why was it the West who colonized the rest, and not the other way around? Different scholars obviously go about answering this question in different ways corresponding to their [...]
Thursday, September 14, 2006
if women participated in the enterprise of expansion…particularly using the instrument of scietific expedition…were their representations of the other any different from those of the men?
if part of the process of post enlightenment categorization/classification in europe was constructing binaries that included gender and race, how did those manifest in the representations of race/otherness of the [...]
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Paperback)
by Frederick Cooper (Editor), Ann Laura Stoler (Editor)
Cultures of Empire : Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)
by Catherine Hall
Imperial Eyes (Paperback)
by Mary Pratt
Thursday, September 14, 2006
KINGSLEY, MARY
Kingsley, MaryMary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was a British explorer who made two pioneering trips to West and Central Africa. She was the first European to enter remote parts of Gabon.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
VIZCAÍNO, SEBASTIÁN
Sebastián Vizcaíno (1550?-1628?) was a Spanish nobleman, explorer and merchant. In 1602, Vizcaino sailed up te coast of California in three ships at the request of King Phillip II of Spain. Vizcaino named Monterey Bay (named for the viceroy Conde de Monterey who sponsored this voyage) and San Diego (Vizcaino arrived there on the [...]
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
KABLICK, JOSEPHINE
Botanist (born 1787)
Josephine Kablick of Bohemia studied under the best botanists of her time. She was an indefatigable explorer, strong and healthy. She was an enthusiastic collector, and many public institutions owe their best samples to her endeavors.
Many other women worked alongside their husbands and brothers illustrating their work with delicate yet thorough and [...]