| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Deena J. González. Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820–1880. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xx, 186. $45.00.

As the title states, this book tells the story of the Hispanic women of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for thirty years before and thirty years after the American conquest. It is a story filtered through a distinctly feminist viewpoint. In fact, it is not too much to say that this book is a model of the "we were victims" school of history. The formula is three-fold: how we suffered and were oppressed and exploited; how hard we struggled back against our oppressors; and how oppression and exploitation still continue today. The "we" in this formula varies, depending on whichever minority group an author identifies with, but the outline—a formula for feeling in turn indignant, proud, and politically angry—remains the same. Deena J. González's chapter titles follow the formula, at least in the first three of four: "Women in the Courts: Conformity and Dissonance before the War, 1821–1846," "Women under Siege: Sexuality and the Gendered Economics of Colonization, 1840–1852," and "Women's Survival Strategies: Gifts and Giving as Methods of Resistance, 1846–1880." . . .

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