| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

Women and the Conquest of California, 1542—1840: Codes of Silence. By Virginia Marie Bouvier. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. xvii + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)

This slim volume offers yet another glimpse at the "intimate frontiers" of colonial North America by examining the ways in which various "codes of silence" obscured or distorted the experiences of Native and Hispanic women in the settlement of Alta California. Bouvier's evaluation of the multi-layered contact zones that formed the basis of Spanish and Mexican society is informed by much of the best scholarship in this burgeoning field. She borrows from many of the theoretical constructs used so skillfully by scholars like Irene Silverblatt, Sylvia Van Kirk, Antonia Castañeda, and Albert Hurtado to examine the ways in which gender issues played a central role in the early history of Alta California. . . .

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