Las Hermanas

In this historical study, Lara Medina examines the early development and continuing influence of Las Hermanas, a feminist organization established in 1971 to counter the patriarchy and Eurocentrism of the U.S. Catholic Church. Medina weaves archival research and oral interviews into a cohesive narrative that highlights the keen ethnic and political awareness among the movement's leaders and participants. Medina also illuminates the strides made by Las Hermanas in undermining and reorienting the male-dominated structure of both the Catholic ministry and the Chicano civil rights movement. By...

Un magnífico documento sobre el arte y los monumentos de la civilización y la cultura chinas. Presenta algunos ejemplos más tempranos e imaginativos del arte y la artesanía chinos. Cubre ampliamente muchos de los lugares históricos más espectaculares de China. China es la más antigua de las grandes civilizaciones de la humanidad. Ha producido un enorme legado de arte y arquitectura, gran parte del cual es único y distintivo. Cualquier personade Occidente que visite la Gran Muralla, el Ejército de Terracota del primer emperador o la Ciudad Prohibida de Beijing quedará impresionada...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

En estas páginas se presenta una selección de los párrafos más iluminados de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. Se trata de las descripciones más apasionadas y asombrosas que se quedarían para siempre en la memoria del cronista. Aquí se perciben el azoro ante lo desconocido, la admiración ante las grandezas del mundo mexica, la sentida importancia que el autor confiere a los hechos en los que participa y todo un vértigo de colores, sabores, edificios y multitudes que no parecen sino cosas de encantamiento.

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