Bibliography - Women

WOMEN

Beebe, Rose Marie and Robert M. Senkewicz. Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2006.

Bouvier, Virginia M. Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840. Codes of Silence. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

Castañeda, Antonia I. Presidarias y Pobladores: Spanish-Mexican Women in Frontier Monterey, Alta California, 1770-1821. Ph.D. diss, Stanford University, 1990

–––––– "Gender, Race, and Culture: Spanish-Mexican Women in the Historiography of Frontier California." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 11.1 (1990): 8-20.

–––––"The Political Economy of Nineteenth Century Stereotypes of Californians." In Regions of La Raza: Changing Interpretations of Mexican American Regional History and Culture , edited by Antonio Rios-Bustamante, 189-211. Encino, CA: Floricanto Press, 1993

------- "Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family." In Contested Eden, California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi. pp. 230-59. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Chávez-García, Miroslava. Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.

de la Guerra Ord, Angustias. Occurences in Hispanic California. Francis Frice and William H. Ellison, transl. and eds. Washington, D.C.: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1956.

Pérez, Eulalia. “An Old Woman and her Recollections.” in Three Memoirs of Mexican California. Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1988. 71-105.