Sonya Lipsett-Rivera

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera is a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the author of Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856 and To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla (UNM Press), and she is the coeditor of Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico (UNM Press) and The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America (UNM Press).

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The Faces of Honor

Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America

University of New Mexico Press

Honor was everywhere in Colonial Latin America, and to understand the many ways it had an impact on people's lives is to understand the organizing principles of a society.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Origins of Macho

Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Lipsett-Rivera traces the genesis of the Mexican macho by looking at daily interactions between Mexican men in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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