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"Beautifully written, capaciously documented, and compellingly argued, this book contributes enormously to the colonial Spanish-American historiography on race, social status, and culture, as well as on how these themes were played out in daily life as concerns for honor, gender, and sexuality."Ramon Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego "Fresh, well written, thoroughly documented, and extraordinarily informative, this outstanding social history is one of the most important works in colonial Spanish American history published in the 1990s."ChoiceTwinam, Ann is the author of 'Public Lives, Private Secrets Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America', published 1999 under ISBN 9780804731485 and ISBN 0804731489.
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