Mujeres de conquista

Mujeres de conquista
Author: CARLOS CUAUHTÉMOC SÁNCHEZ
Publisher: Ediciones Selectas Diamante SA de CV
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 6077627437

Esposa mía, perdóname: He sido injusto contigo muchas veces. Trabajas en una oficina, aconsejas a los demás, te involucras en obras sociales y cuidas la casa. Cuando terminas parece que no has hecho nada… ¡y yo te reclamo! Siempre he reprochado que gastas demasiado. Si te compras un vestido nuevo, todos te elogian y a mí sólo se me ocurre preguntarte “¿cuánto te costó?” Mujer… Perdóname. En las noches cuando nuestros hijos lloraban, tú te levantabas a atenderlos y yo me tapaba con las cobijas… Hoy me he dado cuenta de mis errores y de tu gran valor. Quiero decirte que las personas cercanas te necesitamos mucho. Eres una MUJER DE CONQUISTA. Tu capacidad de amar es irremplazable, tu esfuerzo en los proyectos importantes es fundamental. Tu sensibilidad te permite comprender y sanar el corazón de otros seres humanos… Eres el equilibrio del mundo y generas la vida espiritual desde tus entrañas… Amor… debes saber que en gran medida es tu vida la que le ha dado sentido a la mía.

Conquistadoras

Conquistadoras
Author: Carlos B. Vega
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2003-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786482087

Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of Maria de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; Maria de Penalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quiros, first and only woman admiral of the Spanish navy; and mestizo leaders Francisca Pizarro and Leonor de Alvarado. Also covered are more than 40 other women of the same period--Spanish, Indian, and black--who held a wide variety of leadership positions. The book draws its information from the writings of respected early historians as well as historical documents from libraries and archives in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Cortes, Pizarro, Alvarado, todos ellos hombres conocidos y famosos. Pero y las mujeres? Si bien fue el hombre el que mayormente cargo sobre sus hombros la empresa conquistadora, muchas fueron las mujeres que tambien formaron parte de tal epopeya. Sin embargo, la historia les paso por encima y las relego al triste olvido. Esta obra se empena en hacerles justicia historica a estas mujeres, destacando sus vidas y hazanas sobre todo a ocho de ellas, quizas las mas conocidas, pero no las unicas. Fueron mujeres excepcionales, resolutas, integras, juiciosas, prontas a echar un pie adelante cuando las circunstancias asi lo exigieron, pero, vale recalcar, sin renunciar en ningun momento a sus dotes de madres y esposas. De las ocho mujeres, seis fueron espanolas y dos indigenas, incluyendose, ademas, a unas cuarenta mas aunque en menos detalle. La obra rebosa humanidad y sentido historico y esta escrita en un lenguaje pulcro y sencillo, al alcance de todo tipo de lector. Sus fuentes son rigurosamente historicas y fidedignas, fruto de las mas excelsas plumas a ambos lados del Atlantico y pertenecientes a todas las epocas, incluyendo, claro esta, a los primitivos cronistas de Indias.

Publications

Publications
Author: United States. Department of State. Central Translating Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 1944
Genre:
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Captive Women

Captive Women
Author: Susana Rotker
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002
Genre: Argentina
ISBN: 9781452905921

Women in Ancient America

Women in Ancient America
Author: Karen Olsen Bruhns
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-08-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0806147520

This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America. Women—and women’s work—have been crucial to the survival and success of American peoples since ancient times. And as hunting and foraging societies developed farming techniques and eventually created permanent settlements, women’s roles changed. Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert consider the various economic adaptations that followed, as well as the ways in which women participated in food production and the specialized industries of their societies. They also look at women’s access to power, both political and religious, paying particular attention to the place of priestesses and goddesses in the spiritual life of ancient peoples. The narrative that unfolds in Women in Ancient America is based on the most recent research, using evidence and examples from a wide range of cultures dating from the Paleoindian period to European invasion. This book, unlike others, treats many different types of societies, as the authors develop arguments sure to provoke thinking about the lives of women who inhabited the Americas in the distant past.

Malinche

Malinche
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2008-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847397182

An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.

Bolivia's Radical Tradition

Bolivia's Radical Tradition
Author: S. Sándor John
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0816544654

In December 2005, following a series of convulsive upheavals that saw the overthrow of two presidents in three years, Bolivian peasant leader Evo Morales became the first Indian president in South American history. Consequently, according to S. Sándor John, Bolivia symbolizes new shifts in Latin America, pushed by radical social movements of the poor, the dispossessed, and indigenous people once crossed off the maps of "official" history. But, as John explains, Bolivian radicalism has a distinctive genealogy that does not fit into ready-made patterns of the Latin American left. According to its author, this book grew out of a desire to answer nagging questions about this unusual place. Why was Bolivia home to the most persistent and heroically combative labor movement in the Western Hemisphere? Why did this movement take root so deeply and so stubbornly? What does the distinctive radical tradition of Trotskyism in Bolivia tell us about the past fifty years there, and what about the explosive developments of more recent years? To answer these questions, John clearly and carefully pieces together a fragmented past to show a part of Latin American radical history that has been overlooked for far too long. Based on years of research in archives and extensive interviews with labor, peasant, and student activists—as well as Chaco War veterans and prominent political figures—the book brings together political, social, and cultural history, linking the origins of Bolivian radicalism to events unfolding today in the country that calls itself "the heart of South America."