Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof
Biographic Data
| ID | 278901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuznesof |
| SIGNATURE | KUZNESOF E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Monica L. Hardin, Household mobility and persistence in Guadalajara, Mexico 1811–1842 (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017). Pages vii + 151, including tables 44. $80/£52.95 hardback, $76/£49.95 ebook. Moni…
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Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
The reader could be forgiven for questioning what this book could tell us that would be new and important. The danger that it might duplicate previous studies or, worse, simplify a complex topic because of the comparative treatment would seem to be substantial. However, Camillia Cowling's well-written and deeply researched book takes an original approach to the vast topic of slavery and its abolition. She delves into significant themes and utiliz…
The House, the Street and the Brothel: Gender in Latin American History
This article delineates scholarship in Latin American history (mostly in English) defined by gender relations and/or focused on women. From 1492 until 1750, the honor code, the process of miscegenation or race mixture, and property rights are emphasized. Scholarship has overturned the traditional view that colonial households and production were invariably patriarchal, since between 25 to 45 percent of households were headed by women. Illegitimac…
Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima - by Mannarelli, Maria Emma
The House, the Street, Global Society: Latin American Families and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century
Journal Article The House, the Street, Global Society: Latin American Families and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century Get access Elizabeth A. Kuznesof Elizabeth A. Kuznesof Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 38, Issue 4, Summer 2005, Pages 859-872, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2005.0065 Publishe…
Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society
This excellent book is the first to be published specifically on the history of childhood in Latin America. Its 13 chapters amply demonstrate the important role played by children in the histories of institutions such as the family, social welfare, education, the church, and the army. The history of industrialization and crime control are likewise intimately associated with issues of childhood and education. Tobias Hecht argues that the study of …
Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais
Kathleen Higgins focuses on questions of race, gender, and autonomy in this case study of slavery in the colonial mining community of Sabara. She demonstrates the changing conditions of slavery and how slavery was “gendered” in a society with highly contorted sex ratios for both slave and free populations. Higgins makes a strong case that “one effective way to understand the history of eighteenth-century Sabara may be to consider it in terms of t…
The Puzzling Contradictions of Child Labor, Unemployment, and Education in Brazil
Hugh Cunningham recently argued that in nineteenth-century Europe, social con trol was the major concern of authorities promoting both child labor and public education. This article examines this thesis for nineteenth-century São Paulo, Bra zil, using Portuguese legislation concerning orphans, cases of tutorship, criminal records, records of child labor from industries, and annual reports of São Paulo primary teachers. The evidence shows that chi…
Who were the families of “natural” children in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A comparison of baptismal and census records
The article analyzes the census records for Sao Cristovao in 1870 to determine the proportions of single mothers in the population and whether they were living in female-headed households, as companheiras in male-headed households (in consensual union), or as agregadas or dependent members of a household headed by someone else, who was not the sexual partner of the single mother. The socio-economic and racial characteristics of the single mothers…
Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas
Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender, and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America
More conversation on race, class and gender
Kansas Research Award
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Ethnic and gender influences on "Spanish" Creole society in colonial Spanish America∗
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
The construction of gender in colonial Latin America
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846. By RAMÓN GUTIÉRREZ. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. Pp. xxx + 424. Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. Edited by ASUNCIÓN LAVRÍN. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Pp. v + 349. Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. By MARY ELIZABETH PERRY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. 206. To Love, Hon…
História da criança no Brasil
DEL PRIORE, Mary (Org). Historia da crianca no Brasil. Sao Paulo: Contexto, 1991. 176 p. (Caminhos da Historia)
Sexual Politics, Race and Bastard-Bearing in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: A Question of Culture or Power
In the nineteenth century some 20-60% of the Brazilian population was born outside of wedlock and for the white population the proportion was about 30%. Higher proportions of both colored and white single mothers were found in urban than in rural or suburban areas of São Paulo in 1836. However, illegitimacy was invariably higher for the colored population in whatever location. Nevertheless, unmarried white mothers had significantly more illegitim…
Coffee Planters, Workers and Wives: Class Conflict and Gender Relations on São Paulo Plantations
The History of the Family in Latin America: A Critique of Recent Work
In discussing the "encompassing" nature of social history in 1971, Eric Hobsbawm suggested that "historians pick on one particular . . . relational complex as central and specific to the society. . . in question, and group the rest .of the treatment around it" (p. 31). In 1985 the late Robert Oppenheimer and I proposed the family as that "central complex of relationships through which political, entrepreneurial, and agrarian history may be viewed…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: A Mexican Elite Family, 1820–1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture . Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Marisol Perez‐Lizaur ( Cinna Lomnitz , transl.)
Household Economy and Urban Development: Sao Paulo, 1765 to 1836
Household Economy and Urban Development: São Paulo, 1765-1836
The Family and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: An Historiographical Introduction
This historiographic essay reviews literature on the Latin American family within the context of themes, issues, and methodologies important in studies of European and United States families. The family in Latin America is found to have been a more central and active force in shaping political, social, and economic institutions of the area than was true in Europe or the United States. The authors suggest that institutions in Latin American societ…
Inequality and Social Mobility in Brazil
Ethnic and gender influences on "Spanish" Creole society in colonial Spanish America∗
The Family and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: An Historiographical Introduction
This historiographic essay reviews literature on the Latin American family within the context of themes, issues, and methodologies important in studies of European and United States families. The family in Latin America is found to have been a more central and active force in shaping political, social, and economic institutions of the area than was true in Europe or the United States. The authors suggest that institutions in Latin American societ…
Household Economy and Urban Development: Sao Paulo, 1765 to 1836
The House, the Street, Global Society: Latin American Families and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century
Journal Article The House, the Street, Global Society: Latin American Families and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century Get access Elizabeth A. Kuznesof Elizabeth A. Kuznesof Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 38, Issue 4, Summer 2005, Pages 859-872, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2005.0065 Publishe…
Sexual Politics, Race and Bastard-Bearing in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: A Question of Culture or Power
In the nineteenth century some 20-60% of the Brazilian population was born outside of wedlock and for the white population the proportion was about 30%. Higher proportions of both colored and white single mothers were found in urban than in rural or suburban areas of São Paulo in 1836. However, illegitimacy was invariably higher for the colored population in whatever location. Nevertheless, unmarried white mothers had significantly more illegitim…
The role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: Sao Paulo 1765 to 1836
Journal Article The role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: São Paulo 1765 to 1836 Get access Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 13, Issue 4, Summer 1980, Pages 589–613, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/13.4.589 Published: 01 July 1980
Household Composition and Headship as Related to Changes in Mode of Production: São Paulo 1765 to 1836
The relationship of household and family organization to changes in the larger economy (e.g., commercialization, industrialization) has long fascinated and baffled scholars. Data that specifically link the household and/or family unit to economic change have proved elusive, and most studies do little more than note temporal crosscultural coincidences of demographic and residential characteristics with those of economic development. The means by w…
The Puzzling Contradictions of Child Labor, Unemployment, and Education in Brazil
Hugh Cunningham recently argued that in nineteenth-century Europe, social con trol was the major concern of authorities promoting both child labor and public education. This article examines this thesis for nineteenth-century São Paulo, Bra zil, using Portuguese legislation concerning orphans, cases of tutorship, criminal records, records of child labor from industries, and annual reports of São Paulo primary teachers. The evidence shows that chi…
The Role of the Merchants in the Economic Development of São Paulo, 1765-1850
M /[ ERCHANTS have been the focus of a continuing debate among colonial Latin Americanists for over a decade. Questions at issue include the social origins of merchants, their relationships to planters and government officials, and their presence in elite institutions. A recent study by Rae Flory and David G. Smith on colonial Bahia demonstrates the seventeenth and eighteenthcentury participation of merchants in elite institutions and the impossi…
The History of the Family in Latin America: A Critique of Recent Work
In discussing the "encompassing" nature of social history in 1971, Eric Hobsbawm suggested that "historians pick on one particular . . . relational complex as central and specific to the society. . . in question, and group the rest .of the treatment around it" (p. 31). In 1985 the late Robert Oppenheimer and I proposed the family as that "central complex of relationships through which political, entrepreneurial, and agrarian history may be viewed…
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
Who were the families of “natural” children in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A comparison of baptismal and census records
The article analyzes the census records for Sao Cristovao in 1870 to determine the proportions of single mothers in the population and whether they were living in female-headed households, as companheiras in male-headed households (in consensual union), or as agregadas or dependent members of a household headed by someone else, who was not the sexual partner of the single mother. The socio-economic and racial characteristics of the single mothers…
Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas
The construction of gender in colonial Latin America
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846. By RAMÓN GUTIÉRREZ. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. Pp. xxx + 424. Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. Edited by ASUNCIÓN LAVRÍN. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Pp. v + 349. Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. By MARY ELIZABETH PERRY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. 206. To Love, Hon…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: A Mexican Elite Family, 1820–1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture . Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Marisol Perez‐Lizaur ( Cinna Lomnitz , transl.)
The role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: Sao Paulo 1765 to 1836
Journal Article The role of the Female-Headed Household in Brazilian Modernization: São Paulo 1765 to 1836 Get access Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 13, Issue 4, Summer 1980, Pages 589–613, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/13.4.589 Published: 01 July 1980
The Role of the Merchants in the Economic Development of São Paulo, 1765-1850
M /[ ERCHANTS have been the focus of a continuing debate among colonial Latin Americanists for over a decade. Questions at issue include the social origins of merchants, their relationships to planters and government officials, and their presence in elite institutions. A recent study by Rae Flory and David G. Smith on colonial Bahia demonstrates the seventeenth and eighteenthcentury participation of merchants in elite institutions and the impossi…
Household Composition and Headship as Related to Changes in Mode of Production: São Paulo 1765 to 1836
The relationship of household and family organization to changes in the larger economy (e.g., commercialization, industrialization) has long fascinated and baffled scholars. Data that specifically link the household and/or family unit to economic change have proved elusive, and most studies do little more than note temporal crosscultural coincidences of demographic and residential characteristics with those of economic development. The means by w…
The Land and People of Northeast Brazil
Brazilian Urban History: An Evaluation
In 1973, Paul Singer, in Economia Politica da Urbanizaciio, reminded urban scholars that cities-based on a surplus of production beyond the needs of the countryside-only appear in societies with a class structure. In fact it is precisely the economic system and the political relations between classes that determine the organization of rural-urban sectors and their relations of mutual determination. 1 Two important messages that have increasingly …
Inequality and Social Mobility in Brazil
The Family and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: An Historiographical Introduction
This historiographic essay reviews literature on the Latin American family within the context of themes, issues, and methodologies important in studies of European and United States families. The family in Latin America is found to have been a more central and active force in shaping political, social, and economic institutions of the area than was true in Europe or the United States. The authors suggest that institutions in Latin American societ…
Household Economy and Urban Development: Sao Paulo, 1765 to 1836
Household Economy and Urban Development: São Paulo, 1765-1836
Social/Cultural Anthropology: A Mexican Elite Family, 1820–1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture . Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Marisol Perez‐Lizaur ( Cinna Lomnitz , transl.)
Coffee Planters, Workers and Wives: Class Conflict and Gender Relations on São Paulo Plantations
The History of the Family in Latin America: A Critique of Recent Work
In discussing the "encompassing" nature of social history in 1971, Eric Hobsbawm suggested that "historians pick on one particular . . . relational complex as central and specific to the society. . . in question, and group the rest .of the treatment around it" (p. 31). In 1985 the late Robert Oppenheimer and I proposed the family as that "central complex of relationships through which political, entrepreneurial, and agrarian history may be viewed…
Sexual Politics, Race and Bastard-Bearing in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: A Question of Culture or Power
In the nineteenth century some 20-60% of the Brazilian population was born outside of wedlock and for the white population the proportion was about 30%. Higher proportions of both colored and white single mothers were found in urban than in rural or suburban areas of São Paulo in 1836. However, illegitimacy was invariably higher for the colored population in whatever location. Nevertheless, unmarried white mothers had significantly more illegitim…
The construction of gender in colonial Latin America
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846. By RAMÓN GUTIÉRREZ. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. Pp. xxx + 424. Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. Edited by ASUNCIÓN LAVRÍN. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. Pp. v + 349. Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville. By MARY ELIZABETH PERRY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. 206. To Love, Hon…
História da criança no Brasil
DEL PRIORE, Mary (Org). Historia da crianca no Brasil. Sao Paulo: Contexto, 1991. 176 p. (Caminhos da Historia)
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
Ethnic and gender influences on "Spanish" Creole society in colonial Spanish America∗
More conversation on race, class and gender
Kansas Research Award
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who were the families of “natural” children in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A comparison of baptismal and census records
The article analyzes the census records for Sao Cristovao in 1870 to determine the proportions of single mothers in the population and whether they were living in female-headed households, as companheiras in male-headed households (in consensual union), or as agregadas or dependent members of a household headed by someone else, who was not the sexual partner of the single mother. The socio-economic and racial characteristics of the single mothers…
Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas
Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender, and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America
The Puzzling Contradictions of Child Labor, Unemployment, and Education in Brazil
Hugh Cunningham recently argued that in nineteenth-century Europe, social con trol was the major concern of authorities promoting both child labor and public education. This article examines this thesis for nineteenth-century São Paulo, Bra zil, using Portuguese legislation concerning orphans, cases of tutorship, criminal records, records of child labor from industries, and annual reports of São Paulo primary teachers. The evidence shows that chi…
Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais
Kathleen Higgins focuses on questions of race, gender, and autonomy in this case study of slavery in the colonial mining community of Sabara. She demonstrates the changing conditions of slavery and how slavery was “gendered” in a society with highly contorted sex ratios for both slave and free populations. Higgins makes a strong case that “one effective way to understand the history of eighteenth-century Sabara may be to consider it in terms of t…
Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society
This excellent book is the first to be published specifically on the history of childhood in Latin America. Its 13 chapters amply demonstrate the important role played by children in the histories of institutions such as the family, social welfare, education, the church, and the army. The history of industrialization and crime control are likewise intimately associated with issues of childhood and education. Tobias Hecht argues that the study of …
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (11 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (6 works) · History of Colonial Brazil (6 works)