Description: ""Examines the religion, family, economics, and material culture of women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities in 1750-1846 through women's wills. The wills help to explain the workings of the patriarchal system in the Spanish and Mexican borderland communities"--
Brief description: Amy M. Porter is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, where she teaches courses on early America, women, and Texas.