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03328aam a2200469 i 4500 001 0FDFC94EF70611E582760BA0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160331010051 008 150316s2015 txua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015001535 020 $a 089672932X 020 $a 9780896729322 035 $a (OCoLC)891616007 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d LEV $d NUI $d CDX $d OCLCO $d NhCcYME $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-ust-- 050 00 $a HQ1438.M45 $b P67 2015 050 00 $a HQ1438.M45 $b P67 2015 084 $a SOC028000 $a LAW090000 $a SOC028000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Porter, Amy M., $e author. 245 10 $a Their lives their wills : $b women in the borderlands, 1750-1846 / $c Amy M. Porter ; foreword by Nancy E. Baker. 264 1 $a Lubbock, Texas : $b Texas Tech University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xvi, 192 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Women, gender, and the West. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 2 $a "In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de B©âxar, a dying widow named Mar©Ưa Concepci©Än de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious salvation. Wills like Estrada's reveal much about women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as main sources, Amy M. Porter explores the ways in which these documents reveal details about religion, family, economics, and material culture. In addition, the wills speak loudly to the difficulties of frontier life, in which widowhood and child mortality were commonplace. Most importantly, information in the wills helps to explain the workings of the patriarchal system of Spanish and Mexican borderland communities, showing that gender role divisions were fluid in some respects. Supplemented by censuses, inventories, court cases, and travelers' accounts, women's wills paint a more complete picture of life in the borderlands than the previously male-dominated historiography of the region"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women $z Mexican-American Border Region $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Women $z Mexican-American Border Region $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Hispanic American women $z Southwest, New $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Women $z Mexico, North $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Wills $z Mexican-American Border Region $x History. 650 0 $a Material culture $z Mexican-American Border Region $x History. 650 0 $a Patriarchy $x History. $z Mexican-American Border Region $x History. 651 0 $a Mexican-American Border Region $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Mexican-American Border Region $x Religious life and customs. 651 0 $a Mexican-American Border Region $x Economic conditions. 830 0 $a Women, gender, and the West. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118072641.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171205015634.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331012004.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0FDFC94EF70611E582760BA0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search