Neither silent nor invisible, women of early Mexico were active participants in their societies and critically influenced the direction history would take. This collection of essays by leading scholars in Mexican ethnohistory, edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, examines the life experiences of Indian women in preconquest and colonial Mexico.In this volume: "Introduction", Susan Schroeder; "Mexica Women on the Home Front: Housework and Religion in Aztec Mexico", Louise M. Burkhart; "Aztec Wives", Arthur J. O. Anderson; "Indian-Spanish Marriages in the First Century of the Colony", Pedro Carrasco; "Gender and Social Identity: Nahua Naming Patterns in Postconquest Central Mexico", Rebecca Horn; "From Parallel and Equivalent to Separate but Unequal: Tenochca Mexica Women, 1500-1700", Susan Kellogg; "Activist or Adulteress? The Life and Struggle of Dona Josefa Maria of Tepoztlan", Robert Haskett; "Matters of Life at Death: Nahuatl Testaments of Rural Women, 1589-1801", Stephanie Wood; "Mixteca Cacicas: Status, Wealth, and the Political Accommodation of Native Elite Women in Early Colonial Oaxaca", Ronald Spores; "Women and Crime in Colonial Oaxaca: Evidence of Complementary Gender Roles in Mixtec and Zapotec Societies", Lisa Mary Sousa; "Women, Rebellion, and the Moral Economy of Maya Peasants in Colonial Mexico", Kevin Gosner; "Work, Marriage, and Status: Maya Women of Colonial Yucatan", Marta Espejo-Ponce Hunt and Matthew Restall; "Double Jeopardy: Indian Women in Jesuit Missions of Nueva Vizcaya", Susan M. Deeds; "Women's Voices from the Frontier: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in the Late Eighteenth Century", Leslie S. Offutt; "Rethinking Malinche", FrancesKarttunen; "Concluding Remarks", Stephanie Wood and Robert Haskett.