Download or read book Conquistadoras written by Carlos B. Vega and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of Maria de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; Maria de Penalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quiros, first and only woman admiral of the Spanish navy; and mestizo leaders Francisca Pizarro and Leonor de Alvarado. Also covered are more than 40 other women of the same period--Spanish, Indian, and black--who held a wide variety of leadership positions. The book draws its information from the writings of respected early historians as well as historical documents from libraries and archives in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Cortes, Pizarro, Alvarado, todos ellos hombres conocidos y famosos. Pero y las mujeres? Si bien fue el hombre el que mayormente cargo sobre sus hombros la empresa conquistadora, muchas fueron las mujeres que tambien formaron parte de tal epopeya. Sin embargo, la historia les paso por encima y las relego al triste olvido. Esta obra se empena en hacerles justicia historica a estas mujeres, destacando sus vidas y hazanas sobre todo a ocho de ellas, quizas las mas conocidas, pero no las unicas. Fueron mujeres excepcionales, resolutas, integras, juiciosas, prontas a echar un pie adelante cuando las circunstancias asi lo exigieron, pero, vale recalcar, sin renunciar en ningun momento a sus dotes de madres y esposas. De las ocho mujeres, seis fueron espanolas y dos indigenas, incluyendose, ademas, a unas cuarenta mas aunque en menos detalle. La obra rebosa humanidad y sentido historico y esta escrita en un lenguaje pulcro y sencillo, al alcance de todo tipo de lector. Sus fuentes son rigurosamente historicas y fidedignas, fruto de las mas excelsas plumas a ambos lados del Atlantico y pertenecientes a todas las epocas, incluyendo, claro esta, a los primitivos cronistas de Indias.
Download or read book Ten Women written by Marcela Serrano and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldn't be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A celebrity television personality. A woman confronting the loneliness of old age. Of disparate ages and races, these women represent the variety of cultural and social groups that Chile comprises. On the surface, they seem to have nothing in common...except for their beloved therapist, who brings them together. Yet as different as they all are, each woman has a story to share. As the women tell their stories, unlikely common threads are discovered, bonds are formed, and lives are transformed. Their stories form an intricate tale of triumph, heartache, and healing that will resonate with women from all walks of life. An International DUBLIN Literary Award Nominee.
Download or read book Cuban Studies 42 written by Catherine Krull and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies 42 focuses on gender and equality issues in post-1959 Cuba, and their impact on cultural and institutional change. It views subjects such as politics, labor, food and diet, race, ethnicity, HIV/AIDS, sex education, tourism and prostitution, masculinity, and feminism, among others.
Download or read book Como Encontrar a Tu Alma Gemela Sin Perder Tu Alma written by Jason Evert and published by Totus Tuus Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Eres una novia… o un alma gemela? ¿Eres la mujer de ahora… o la mujer para siempre? En tu búsqueda del amor, no te pierdas en el camino. Al navegar en el mundo de las citas, cada mujer comienza a preguntarse: ¿Cómo sé que un hombre realmente me ama? ¿Estoy siendo muy exigente? ¿Y acaso merezco el amor? ¿Vale la pena seguir con esta relación? ¿Vale la pena el riesgo para encontrar el amor? ¿Quedan hombres decentes? A menudo, las mujeres solteras se sienten perdidas cuando tratan de encontrar respuestas a sus inquietudes más profundas sobre el amor y la intimidad. Algunas salen para pasar el rato o se involucran en relaciones casuales esperando el amor. Otras, incluso sienten miedo de tener esperanzas. En determinado momento, cada mujer necesita la confirmación de que ella–y sus estándares–no son el problema. En Cómo encontrar a tu alma gemela sin perder tu alma, descubrirás veintiuna estrategias que te ayudarán a levantar la barra, en vez de sentarte en ella a esperar que el Sr. Maravilloso aparezca. ¿no Es tiempo ya de que descubras un amor que te ayude a ser tú misma?
Download or read book Ten Spanish Farces of the 16th 17th and 18th Centuries written by George Tyler Northup and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epistolario Espa ol written by Eugenio de Ochoa and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unfolding the City written by Anne Lambright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is not only built of towers of steel and glass; it is a product of culture. It plays an especially important role in Latin America, where urban areas hold a near-monopoly on resources and are home to an expanding population. The essays in this collection assert that women's views of the city are unique and revealing. For the first time, Unfolding the City addresses issues of gender and the urban in literature--particularly lesser-known works of literature--written by Latin American women from Mexico City, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. The contributors propose new mappings of urban space; interpret race and class dynamics; and describe Latin American urban centers in the context of globalization. Contributors: Debra A. Castillo, Cornell U; Sandra Messinger Cypess, U of Maryl∧ Guillermo Irizarry, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Naomi Lindstrom, U of Texas, Austin; Jacqueline Loss, U of Connecticut; Dorothy E. Mosby, Mount Holyoke Colle≥ Angel Rivera, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lidia Santos, Yale U; Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers U; Daniel Noemi Voionmaa, U of Michigan; Gareth Williams, U of Michigan. Anne Lambright is associate professor of modern languages and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Elisabeth Guerrero is associate professor of Spanish at Bucknell University.
Download or read book The Woman and the Right to Vote written by Rafael Palma and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EL AYER DE HOY written by AndrA(c)s Medrano and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El ayer de hoy es la vida de dos seres que en su debido tiempo creyeron haber encontrado el amor de sus vidas. Quizas fue amor a primera vista o quizas fue el destino quien los puso en el mismo camino de la vida y ambos sin saberlo vivieron un idilio que tambien seria el destino el que se encargaria de ponerlos frente a frente con lo inesperado. Es el amor de Alejandro y de Erin, un amor simple, pero profundo, un amor que a pesar del tiempo y las circunstancias no conocio el final. Sin embargo, las condiciones en la cuales ese amor crecio fueron mas que complicadas. Alejandro y Erin nunca perdieron la fe en ese amor, pero la vida les determino caminos alternos. ?Es que acaso fue un verdadero amor, o fue tan solo un espejismo de amor? No hay ninguna duda de que aquel amor que florecio en un secreto que ambos decidieron mantener tambien fue ese mismo secreto que quizas lo llevo a lo imprevisto. Nunca hubo un verdadero adios. El adios nunca se dio porque simplemente ambos nunca creyeron en ese adios. Ambos se habian jurado un amor para toda la vida, eso fue para Alejandro y para Erin el amor de ayer y el amor de hoy, el hacer mantener vivo lo que siempre ellos creyeron, un amor sin final.
Download or read book Puntos de Vista written by Sandra N. Harper and published by D.C. Heath. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women s Work in Special Period Cuba written by Daliany Jerónimo Kersh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period. Through the innovative framework of individual and collective memory, Daliany Jerónimo Kersh brings together analysis of press sources and oral histories to offer a compelling portrait of how Cuban women cleverly combined various forms of paid work to make ends meet. Disproportionately impacted by the economic crisis given their role as primary caregivers and household managers and unable to survive on devalued state salaries alone, women often employed informal and illegal earning strategies. As she argues, this regression into gendered work such as cooking, sewing, cleaning, reselling, and providing sexual services precipitated by the post-Soviet crisis to a large extent marked a return to pre-revolutionary gendered divisions of labor.
Download or read book Revista Mexicana written by George F. Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epistolario Espa ol Centon epistolario del bachiller F Gomez de Cibdareal Letras de F de Pulgar Cartas de G Ayora Ep stolas familiares de D A de Guevara obispo de Mondo edo Cartas del bachiller P de Rhua Epistolas familiares del P F F Ortiz Epistolario espiritual del v mtro J de Avila Cartas de A Perez Cartas de D A de Sol s Cartas de D N Antonio Cartas marruecas del coronel D J Cadahalso written by Eugenio de Ochoa and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hispanofila written by Alva Vernon Ebersole and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Otherness in Hispanic Culture written by Teresa Fernandez Ulloa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses contemporary discourses on a wide variety of topics related to the ideological and epistemological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and the ways in which they have shaped the Spanish language and cultural manifestations in both Spain and Hispanic America. The majority of the chapters are concerned with ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions; the alien Other – foreign, immigrant, ethnically different, disempowered, female or minor – as well as the Other of different sexual orientation and/or ideology. Following Octavio Paz, otherness is expressed as the attempt to find the lost object of desire, the frustrating endeavour of the androgynous Plato wishing to embrace the other half of Zeus, who in his wrath, tore off from him. Otherness compels human beings to search for the complement from which they were severed. Thus a male joins a female, his other half, the only half that not only fills him but which allows him to return to the unity and reconciliation which is restored in its own perfection, formerly altered by divine will. As a result of this transformation, one can annul the distance that keeps us away from that which, not being our own, turns into a source of anguish. The clashing diversity of all things requires the human predisposition to accept that which is different. Such a predisposition is an expression of epistemological, ethical and political aperture. The disposition to co-exist with the different is imagined in the de-anthropocentricization of the bonds with all living realms. And otherness is, in some way, the reflection of sameness (mismidad). The other is closely related to the self, because the vision of the other implies a reflection about the self; it implies, consciously or not, a relationship with the self. These topics are addressed in this book from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing arts, humanities and social sciences.
Download or read book Hablando Seriamente written by Rubén Benítez and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced Spanish conversation book features a series of essays on a broad range of important, substantive, and interesting contemporary topics, together with vocabulary notes and explanations. A variety of exercises test readers' comprehension of the essays and encourage them to express a statement of personal opinion or interpretation about the issues raised in, or related, to the essay. Topics progress from the most easy subjects to the most abstract, and include: Costumbres alimenticias en el mundo actual. El dinero, la inflación y el desempleo. El estrés y sus consecuencias. El alcohol y las drogas. La desigualdad social entre los sexos. La destrucción del medio ambiente. Diversidad étnica y discriminación. La presencia hispana en los Estados Unidos. La revolución tecnológica. La influencia de la televisión. Consideraciones sobre la amistad. La búsqueda de la felicidad. For anyone wanting conversational practice in advanced Spanish.
