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(Mexican American, 1959) Guide and cookbook for Mexican servants Place Published: Texas and Mexico City Date Published: 1959 Description: 2 volumes. Comprising: Hawkins, Gladys; Jean Soper; Jane Henry; and Yvonne Soper. Your Maid from Mexico, A Home Training Course for Maids in English and Spanish. San Antonio, Texas Naylor, 1959 168 pp. Illustrated by Yvonne Soper.Original pictorial buckram binding; pictorial dust jacket. First Edition? (Fair, with a few edge chips, tears, creases and stain) Rancich, Frances. Aprenda a Cocinar [Learn To Cook]. Mexico City: 1959. Original cloth; original dust jacket 450 pp. Illustrated. (Jacket edges chipped; foxing to first and last pages) The first book is expectedly patronizing - how to look and act on the job; how to thoroughly clean walls, windows, floors and carpets; how to care for the children of the household (and teach them Spanish); how to press shirts and trousers; how to set the table and serve the meal. A domestic workers union website describes the rare, colorful dust jacket as stereotyping the “sexualized Latin Maid” who was “available for exploitation.” The rare cookbook, written by a wealthy Texan, though published in Mexico, was intended for the edification of border American Anglos. Spanish text with English explanatory blurb on verso of jacket: “If you’re lucky enough to have a Spanish-speaking maid, teach her to cook with….the book that takes your place in the Kitchen…” Condition: Good to very good. Item#: 347158 Headline: Two rare books written for Mexican American "servants" in the US