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This pioneering study confronts three main questions about this era in Mexico City: Were women's roles as narrow and unimportant as has been assumed? To what extent were women dominated by men? Can significant differences be found between younger and older women, married and single, upper class and lower class?

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• Acknowledgments(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 the Mobilization of Women(p. 14)
• Conclusion(p. 49)
• 2 Legal Status(p. 53)
• Conclusion(p. 93)
• 3 Demographic Patterns(p. 98)
• Conclusion(p. 151)
• 4 Employment(p. 154)
• Conclusion(p. 201)
• 5 Marital Relations and Divorce(p. 206)
• Conclusion(p. 256)
• Conclusion(p. 259)
• Appendixes(p. 269)
• Notes(p. 291)
• Bibliography(p. 353)
• Sources of Illustrations(p. 369)
• Index(p. 371)

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The fresh core of Arrom's thesis is that because of economic expansion, royal commitment to the mobilization of women through education and expanded workforce opportunities, and the dislocations of the independence wars, the potential existed for a substantial change in women's status at the end of the colonial period in Mexico City. That momentum, however, was largely dissipated by the growing economic problems and political instabilities of the postindependence period. Moreover, class divisions among women widened because of this turn of events as their experiences increasingly diverged. The potential was also undercut by the rise of ``marianismo.'' This secularized veneration of the Virgin further undermined the traditional view of women's inferiority, and exalted motherhood and domesticity, but in so doing cut off women's growing public involvement and confined them increasingly to the private sphere. Arrom's sources-centered around laws and legal commentaries, census and notarial records, ecclesiastical divorce cases, and varied contemporary works-are carefully examined and qualified. The tables are helpful; graphic illustrations are excellent. The numerous and rich individual examples become overshadowed by the author's willingness to let ``the sources largely dictate the structure of the book.'' Upper-division undergraduates and above.-S.F. Voss, SUNY College at Plattsburgh