| ONE | ||
| Introducing the Indigenous Women of Latin America | 3 | |
| Some Introductory Remarks | 4 | |
| Some Useful Concepts | 5 | |
| Some Background on Latin America's Earliest Women | 11 | |
| TWO | ||
| Of Warriors and Working Women: Gender in Later Prehispanic Mesoamerica and the Andes | 18 | |
| Women and Gender among Northern and Central Mexican Peoples: Parallel Organizations, Hierarchical Ideologies | 19 | |
| The Postclassic Nudzahui: Elite Gender Complementarity | 30 | |
| The Maya of the Classic and Postclassic Periods: The Flexible Patriarchy | 35 | |
| The Andes: Women and Supernatural and State Power | 41 | |
| Conclusion | 51 | |
| THREE | ||
| Colliding Worlds: Indigenous Women, Conquest, and Colonialism | 53 | |
| Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Conquest Era | 55 | |
| Laboring Women: Paying Tribute, Losing Authority | 63 | |
| Family and Religious Life: The Paradoxes of Purity and Enclosure | 71 | |
| A Rebellious Spirit | 81 | |
| Conclusion | 86 | |
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Publication information:
Book title: Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present.
Contributors: Susan Kellogg - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2005.
Page number: ix.
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