Description
Book SynopsisExamines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. This book describes the history of women in the American West and the complex role of gender, race, and class in the borderlands of the Southwest.
Trade Review"This work provides the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of Mexican/EuroAmerican intermarriage in the Spanish borderlands. Casas convincingly challenges earlier studies that portrayed Spanish-speaking California women as helpless debutantes whose fathers used them to protect their own economic interests and social position." - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America "Casas's engaging depiction of nineteenth-century California offers a new understanding of the intermixing of peoples concomitant with the Spanish-Mexican and the American conquests of California." - Journal of American History "The women's stories are compelling and provide an important contribution to Western history and the growing work on Mexican Americans and women in the 19th century." - CHOICE"
