History 448 - Readings
Here are the main readings for the course plus there will be some additional readings that I will be posting on blackboard. The blackboard readings will include essays on gender theory by Joan Scott and Gisela Block as well as selections by Karen Powers, Richard Trexler, Michael Horswell, Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, David Garrett, and Mariza de Caralho Soares. A bit of elaboration on each of the books follows the list below.
Main Texts for the course:
Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the
New World Catalina
de Erauso Beacon Press
Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville Mary Elizabeth Perry
Princeton University Press
Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class
in Inca and Colonial Peru Irene Silverblatt Princeton University Press
The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial
Latin America Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Editors)
University of New Mexico Press
Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial
Mexico Laura
A. Lewis Duke University Press
Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima Bianca Premo University of North Carolina Press
Attention to gender is often not explicit, but it is nonetheless a crucial part of the organization of equality or inequality. Hierarchical structures rely on generalized understandings of the so-called natural relationships between male and female.
Joan Scott "Gender and the Politics of History"
Book Descriptions
Lieutenant Nun is the memoir or personal remembrances of Catalina de Erauso which she wrote during the early 1600s following her escapades in the New World living as a man.
Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville is a fascinating look at the center of colonial power in southern Spain during the beginnings of the era-the early 1500s. Perry explores a variety of topics related to the lives of women all across the spectrum of Spanish society and class structure. This book will help us to see what sort of ideas the Spanish had that they brought with them to the New World.
Moon, Sun and Witches is now a classic text on the late pre-colonial Inca world and the early interactions between the Spanish and the Inca during the creation of the colonial order in the Andes of South America. Her work looks at the whole of the gender structure looking at the lives of women and men, gendered religious practices and many aspects of daily life. She also explores the disruptions that were created by Spanish colonialism.
The Faces of Honor is an edited volume of essays by a number of different authors
Hall of Mirrors
Children of the Father King
