Matt Hinckley
mchinckley76@tx.rr.com
mhinckley@dcccd.edu
History of Women and Gender in Latin America Since 1800 Reading List
Supervising Professor: Monica Rankin
Andreas, Carol. When Women Rebel: The Rise of Popular Feminism in Peru. Westport: Greenwood,
1985.
Arrom, Silvia M. “Changes in Mexican Family Law in the Nineteenth Century: the Civil Codes of 1870
and 1884.” Journal of Family History, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Fall 1985), 305-317.
Arrom, Silvia M. The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1854. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Austerlitz, Paul. Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity. Temple University Press, 1997.
Bar-On, T. “The Ambiguities of Football, Politics, Culture and Social Transformation in Latin America,”
Sociological Research Online, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1997,
<http://www.socresonline.org/uk/socresonline/2/4/2.html
Bauer, Arnold J. Goods, Power and History: Latin America’s Material Culture. Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
Beezley, William H. Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes in Porfirian Mexico. University of
Nebraska Press, 2004.
Besse, Susan K. Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940,
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Bliss, Katherine. Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in
Revolutionary Mexico City. Penn State University Press, 2001.
Borges, Dain Edward. The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1994.
Boyer, Richard. Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico.
University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
Brusco, Elizabeth E. The Reformation of Machismo: Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Buarque de Almeida, Henloisa. “Telenovela and Gender in Brazil,” Global Media Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2
(Spring 2003).
Buffington, Robert and Pablo Piccato. "Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian
Reality," The Americas 55, No. 3, 1999.
Campos, Maria Soledad Zarate. "Vicious Women, Virtuous Women: The Female Delinquent and the
Santiago de Chile Correctional House, 1860-1900," The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin
America: Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940, ed. Ricardo D.
Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre, Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1996.
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Carlson, Marifran. Feminismo! The Woman's Movement in Argentina from Its Beginnings to Eva Perón,
Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1988.
Caulfield, Sueann. “The History of Gender in the Historiography of Latin America,” in Hispanic
American Historical Review, Vol. 81, No. 3-4, 449-480.
Caulfield, Sueann. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-TwentiethCentury Brazil, Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2000.
Chambers, Sarah C. From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 17801854, University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1999.
Cherpak, Evelyn. “The Participation of Women in the Independence Movement in Gran Colombia, 17801830.” Ascuncion Lavrin, ed., Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives, Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1978.
Deutsch, Sandra McGee. “Gender and Sociopolitical Change in Twentieth-Century Latin America,” The
Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 71, No. 2 (May 1991), 259-306.
Delpar, Helen. The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations between the United States
and Mexico, 1920-1935. University of Alabama Press, 1992.
Dore, Elizabeth. “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Gender and State in the Long Nineteenth
Century,” Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and The State in Latin
America, London: Duke University Press, 2000, 8-9.
Dore, Elizabeth. “Property, Households, and Public Regulation of Domestic Life: Diriomo, Nicaragua,
1840-1900,” Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the
State in Latin America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Earle, Rebecca. “Rape and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Colombia, 1810-1830,” Elizabeth Dore
and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America,
Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Edberg, Mark Cameron. El Narcotraficante: Narcocorridos and the Construction of a Cultural Persona
on the U.S.-Mexico Border. University of Texas Press, 2004.
Farnsworth-Alvear, Ann. Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men and Women in Colombia's
Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960, Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2000.
Female and Male in Latin America: Essays, ed. Ann Pescatello, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1973
Findlay, Eileen J. Suarez. Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 18701920, Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1999.
Fisher, Jo. “Gender and the State in Argentina: The Case of the Sindicato de Amas de Casa,” Elizabeth
Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America,
Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
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French, William. "Prostitutes and Guardian Angels: Women, Work, and the Family in Porfirian Mexico,"
Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, 1992.
Friedman, Elisabeth J. Unfinished Transitions: Women and The Gendered Development of Democracy in
Venezuela, 1936-1996, University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2000.
The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union
Hall and Ballot Box, ed. John D. French and Daniel James, Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press,
1997.
Gotkowitz, Laura. “Commemorating the Heroinas: Gender and Civic Ritual in Early-Twentieth-Century
Bolivia,” Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State
in Latin America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Green, James N. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Gutmann, Matthew, ed. Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America. Duke University Press, 2003
Gutmann, Matthew. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. University of California
Press, 1996.
Guy, Donna. "Lower-Class Families, Women, and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Argentina," Journal of
Family History10, No. 3, 1985.
Guy, Donna. Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family and Nation in Argentina. University
of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Guzman Bouvard. Marguerite, Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,
Wilmington: SR Books, 1994.
Hahner, June Edith. Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Brazil, 18501940,” Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.
Higgins, Kathleen. Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender and Social
Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabará, Minas Gerais. Penn State University Press, 1999.
Hoganson, Kristin L. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the SpanishAmerican and Philippine-American Wars, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierette. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994.
Ho, Christine G. T. “Caribbean Transnationalism as a Gendered Process,” Latin American Perspectives,
Vol. 26, No. 5, Technology and Restructuring (Sept. 1999), 34-54.
Hünefeldt, Christine. Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima,
Chapel Hill: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, 1-71.
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Hünefeldt, Christine. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854,
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1994.
Jaquette, Jane S. "Introduction: From Transition to Participation--Women's Movements and Democratic
Politics," in The Women's Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to
Democracy, ed. Jane Jaquette, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Jaquette, Jane S. ed., The Women’s Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy. Boulder:
Westview, 1994.
Johnson, John J. Latin America in Caricature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980.
Kapcia, Antoni. Cuba: Island of Dreams. New York: Berg. 2000.
Kempwirth, Karen. Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Athens,
Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004.
Klubock, Thomas Miller. Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente
Copper Mine, 1904-1951, Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1998.
Kunzle, David. “Roger Sanchez’s ‘Humor Erotica’ and the Semana Comica: A Sexual Revolution in
Sandinista Nicaragua?” Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political
Economy of Gender, Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens, eds., Rowmand and Littlefield
Publishers, 2002.
Kuznesof, Elizabeth and Robert Oppenheimer. "The Family and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin
America: An Historiographical Introduction," Journal of Family History10, 1985.
LaPastina, Antonio C., et. al. “The Centrality of Telenovelas in Latin America’s Everyday Life: Past
Tendencies, Current Knowledge and Future Research,” Global Media Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2
(Spring 2003).
Lauderdale-Graham, Sandra. House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in
Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988.
Lavrin, Asunción. Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940,
Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1995.
John Lear. Workers, Neighbors and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City. University of Nebraska
Press, 2001.
Macaulay, Fiona. “Getting Gender on the Policy Agenda: A Study of a Brazilian Feminist Lobby Group,”
Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin
America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Macías, Anna. Against All Odds: The Feminist Movement in Mexico to 1940, Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1982.
Macías, Anna. "Women and the Mexican Revolution: 1910-1920," The Americas 37, 1980.
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Martínez-Alier, Verena. Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1989.
Martínez-Vergne, Teresita. Shaping the Discourse of Space: Charity and its Wards in Nineteenth-Century
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1999.
McGee, Sandra F. "The Visible and Invisible Liga Patriótica Argentina, 1919-1928: Gender Roles and the
Right Wing," Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 64, No. 2 (May, 1984).
Miller, Francesca. Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice. Hanover: University Press
of New England, 1991.
Miller, Francesca. “The Suffrage Movement in Latin America,” Gertrude M. Yeager, ed., Confronting
Change, Challenging History: Women in Latin American History, Wilmington, Del., Scholarly
Resources, 1997.
Mitchell, Stephanie and Patience A. Schell, eds. The Women’s Revolution in Mexixo: 1910-1953.
Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
Molyneux, Maxine. “State, Gender, and Institutional Change: The Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas,”
Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin
America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Rosario Montoya. Gender’s Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America. New York, Palgrave,
2002.
Nash, June and Helen Icken Safa, eds. Sex and Class in Latin America: Women's Perspectives on Politics,
Economics, and the Family in the Third World, New York: Praeger, 1976.
Navarro-Aranguren, Marysa, Nancy Saporta Sternbacch, Patricia Chuchryk, and Sonia E. Alvarez.
"Feminisms in Latin America: From Bogota to San Bernadino," Signs Vol. 17, No. 2, 1992.
Navarro, Marysa. “Evita and the Crisis of 17 October 1945: A Case Study of Peronist and Anti-Peronist
Mythology,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (May 1980), 127-138.
Neves-Xavier de Brito, Angela and Charlotte Stanley. “Brazilian Women in Exile: the Quest for an
Identity,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring 1986), 58-80.
O’Brien, Thomas. The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America. University of New Mexico Press,
1999.
Olcott, Jocelyn, Mark Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano. Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power
in Modern Mexico. Duke University Press, 2006.
Pablos, Julia Tuñón. Women in Mexico: A Past Unveiled. University of Texas Press, 1987.
Padula, Alfred. “Review: Gender, Sexuality, and Revolution in Cuba,” Latin American Research Review,
Vol. 31, No. 2 (1996), pp. 226-235
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Padula, Alfred and Lois M. Smith. Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1996
Piccato, Pablo. “El Chalequero” or the Mexican Jack the Ripper: The Meanings of Sexual Violence in
Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City,” Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 81: 3-4, 623-651.
Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly
Resources, 2001.
Power, Margaret. Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle Against Allende, 19641973. Penn State University Press.
Putnam, Lara. “The Company they Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica,
1870-1960, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Rodriguez, Eugenia. “Civilizing Domestic Life in the Central Valle of Costa Rica, 1750-1850,” Elizabeth
Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America,
Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Root, Regina A., ed. The Latin American Fashion Reader. Oxford, 2005.
Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. “Domesticating Men: State Building and Class Compromise in PopularFront Chile,” Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the
State in Latin America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 19201950, Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Rubenstein, Ann. Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Duke University Press,
1998.
Rugeley, Terry. Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 18001876. University of Texas Press, 2001.
Sanchez-Leon, Abelardo. “The History of Peruvian Women’s Volleyball,” Joseph Arbena and David G.
LaFrance, eds., Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean, Wilmington, SR Books, 2002, 207217.
Schafer, Claudia. Women, Art, and Representation in Modern Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 1992.
Senior, Olive. Working Miracles: Women’s Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1992.
Shayne, Julie D. The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile and Cuba. Rutgers
University Press, 2004.
Shepherd, Verene, Bridget Bereton, and Barbara Bainley. Engendering History: Caribbean Women in
Historical Perspective. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
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Silverblatt, Irene. Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru.
Princeton University Press, 1987.
Slenes, Robert W. "Black Homes, White Homilies: Perceptions of the Slave Family and of Slave Women
in Nineteenth-Century Brazil," More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas,
ed. David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1996.
Soto, Shirlene. Emergence of the Modern Mexican Woman: Her Participation in Revolution and Struggle
for Equality: 1910-1940, Arden Press, 1990.
Socolow: Susan Migden. The Women of Colonial Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Stephen, Lynn. Women and Social Movements in Latin America. University of Texas Press, 1997.
Stern, Steve. The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men and Power in Late Colonial Mexico. University
of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Stolke, Verena. Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, 2nd ed. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 1989.
Stoner, K. Lynn. From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 18981940I, Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.
Szuchman, Mark D. Order, Family and Community in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1988.
Tinsman, Heidi. Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean
Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973, Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 2002.
Twinam, Ann. Public Lives, Private Spaces: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial
Spanish America. Stanford University Press, 1999.
Vallens, Vivian J. Working Women in Mexico during the Porfiriato, 1880-1910. Palo Alto: R&E
Research, 1978.
Varley, Ann. “Women and the Home in Mexican Family Law,” Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux,
eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America, Durham: Duke University
Press, 2000.
Vaughan, Mary Kay. "Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households, and Women in Mexico,
1930-1940," Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the
State in Latin America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Weinstein, Barbara. For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in
São Paulo, 1920-1964, Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Wolfe, Joel. Working Women, Working Men. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
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