The early period of settlement was enmeshed with conquest; the two periods cannot be separated by...

Malinche, the Indigenous woman who translated for Hernán Cortes, as a traitor to her people, an a...

The colonial societies that were constructed in the period after the conquests built upon Indigen...

acceptable gender norms did not remain static from the moment of conquest; gender concepts are no...

demonstrate a demure demeanor with their bodies. Gradations of luxury and submission were also li...

they were outside the standard mode of being. This understanding of gender identities as norms th...