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CORDOBA, Irina. Women owners in Mexico City during the conjuncture of liberal reform. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2021, vol.28, n.2, e1146.  Epub 06-Jul-2021. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.1146.

The economic changes promoted by the Law on the Confiscation of Civic and Ecclesiastical Rural and Urban Farms, written in June 1856 by the Minister of the Treasury, Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, transformed women’s access to property, however, it did not completely brake the limits to the exercise of this right. This article contextualizes the arguments of 29 women who gradually achieved ownership of the assets awarded in the autumn of 1856 through a documentary research in the Ancient Collections of the Historical Archive of Notaries of Mexico City, and the analysis of legal change with a gender perspective. The interpretation underlines the importance of the economic sphere to understand social change.

Palabras llave : corporations; confiscation; property; women; rights.

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