scholarly journals Por necesidad y solidaridad:

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Cervantes Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Las Mujeres

La condición de soltería posicionaba a las mujeres del México colonial en una situación vulnerable; muchas de ellas se vieron limitadas para mantenerse por su propia cuenta, por lo que aquellas que carecían de lazos familiares tuvieron que agruparse con compañeras en un hogar compartido, para ayudarse mutuamente. En este trabajo exploraremos las principales características de los hogares compuestos exclusivamente por mujeres solteras y viudas que no tenían vínculos de parentesco entre sí, que vivieron en la ciudad de México a finales del siglo XVIII. Para realizar esta investigación partiremos del análisis del Censo de 1790 y complementaremos la información de este documento con la revisión de otras fuentes, con la finalidad de tener una visión más amplia sobre las situaciones domésticas, las condiciones económicas, la existencia de vínculos afectivos y la construcción de redes de solidaridad entre las mujeres que vivieron con compañeras. The single status placed women of colonial Mexico in a vulnerable situation; many of them were limited to support themselves, so those lacked family ties had to group with friends in a shared home, to help each other. In this work we will explore the main characteristics of household integrated exclusively by single women and widows who had no kinship relations, who lived in Mexico City in the late eighteenth century. To do this research, we will start from the analysis of the Census of 1790 and we will complement the information of this document with the review of other sources, in order to have a broader vision of domestic situations, economic conditions, the existence of affective ties and the construction of solidarity networks among women who lived with partners.

Amores perritos: Puppies, Laughter and Popular Catholicism in Bourbon Mexico City

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANK ‘TREY’ PROCTOR
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Face ◽  
Bourbon Reforms ◽  
Popular Classes

AbstractIn late eighteenth-century Mexico City, Spanish colonials, particularly members of the urban middle and popular classes, performed a number of weddings and baptisms on puppies (which were wearing clothes or bejewelled collars) in the context of fandangos or dance parties. These ceremonies were not radical challenges to orthodoxy or conservative reactions in the face of significant economic, political, religious and cultural Bourbon reforms emanating from Spain. Employing Inquisitorial investigations of these ceremonies, this article explores the rise of pet keeping, the meanings of early modern laughter and the implications of the cultural and religious components of the Enlightenment-inspired Bourbon reforms in late colonial Mexico.

scholarly journals Lady of the House: Augustina Meza (ca. 1758–1819), Print Publishing, and the Women of Mexican Late Colonial Art

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
New Spain ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Art ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Women's Lives

Using archival records of the Sagrario Metropolitano and material analysis of extant prints, the paper presents the life and work of the only known woman printmaker in viceregal New Spain, María Augustina Meza. It traces Meza and her work through two marriages to fellow engravers and a 50-year career as owner of an independent print publishing shop in Mexico City. In doing so, the paper places Meza’s print publishing business and its practices within the context of artists’ shops run by women in the mid- to late-eighteenth century. The article simultaneously extends the recognized role of women in printing and broadens our understanding of women within the business of both printmaking and painting in late colonial Mexico City. It furthermore joins the scholarship demonstrating with new empirical research that the lived realities of women in viceregal New Spain were more complex than traditional, stereotypical visions of women’s lives have previously allowed.

Liberty and Economics: A Reconsideration

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Level Of Economic Development ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Liberal Position

The arguments presented by Fred M. Frohock and David J. Sylvan in ‘Liberty, Economics and Evidence’, Political Studies, 31 (1983), 541–55 need reconsideration. They attribute a theory of economic development to liberalism, but it is held by both liberal and other thinkers only after the late eighteenth century. This theory, that a certain level of economic development is a necessary prerequisite for freedom, is different from the widely-held anti-democratic view that political rights should only be granted to persons holding property. Again, the view that liberty and welfare can be traded-off seems not to be held by many of the ‘liberals' mentioned by the authors. Moreover, the contention that the ‘liberal position’ is empirically incorrect confuses two propositions: (1) that there are economic conditions which are necessary for the existence of freedom; (2) that there are economic conditions necessary and sufficient for freedom. The authors' recommendation of ‘holism’ should not be swallowed whole.

Streetwalkers and the Police

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole von Germeten
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Transactional Sex ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Street Culture ◽  
Public Sex ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
Late Eighteenth

 In the late eighteenth-century, a new police force began to patrol the streets of Mexico City. While their first goal was to maintain street illumination, they also policed sanitation, plebeian bodies, public sexuality, and prostitution, creating new archives in the form of their nightly log books. This new and more quantitative documentation actually caused more evasiveness on the part of both those under arrest and those doing the arresting. In the 1790s, law enforcement inscribed only a handful of women arrested for working in brothels and a few dozen public sex acts. Despite nightly entries, many official pronouncements regarding changing plebeian street culture, and a greater presence of authority figures on the street, law enforcement, judicial notaries, and the women taken into custody made a conscious effort to avoid recording transactional sex.

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