Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856History is not just about great personalities, wars, and revolutions; it is also about the subtle aspects of more ordinary matters. On a day to day basis the aspects of life that most preoccupied people in late eighteenth through mid nineteenth century Mexico were not the political machinations of generals or politicians but whether they themselves could make a living, whether others accorded them the respect they deserved, whether they were safe from