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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Mexican women and the American conquest in Los Angeles: From the Mexican era to American ascendancy Abstract: This study of Mexican women in nineteenth-century Los Angeles opens in the 1820s with the onset of Mexican rule and ends in the 1870s with the ascendancy of Anglo society. It explores the meanings and intertwining relationship of gender, class, ethnicity, law, property, and patriarchy as they underwent transformation in the shift from Mexican to American sovereignty. It begins with an examination of how gender, law, property, and ethnicity shaped social and class relations among Mexicans, Indians, men, and women. It draws special attention to how women dealt with the gendered-, class-, and ethnic-based hierarchies that gave elite Mexican men patriarchal authority over Mexican women as well as Indian men and women. It shows that, despite such power, females of different classes and ethnicities found ways to skirt constraints in the home and larger society. With the American takeover in 1846, the focus shifts to how the imposition of foreign legal, economic, linguistic, and cultural norms affected the status of Mexican women and male-female relations. Among the most significant findings is the manner in which the conquest weakened the economic position of both Mexican women and men while simultaneously increasing the leverage of Mexican women in their personal and social relationships with men. |
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