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Antonia Castañeda has utilized scholarship from women`s studiesand Mexican-American history to examine nineteenth-century literary portrayalsof Mexican women. As Castañeda notes, scholars of women`s history observe thatin the United States, male novelists of the period-during which, according tothese scholars, women`s traditional economic role in home-based agriculture wasthreatened by the transition to a factory-based industrial economy- definewomen solely in their domestic roles of wife and mother. Castañeda finds thatduring the same period that saw non-Hispanic women being economically displacedby industrialization, Hispanic law in territorial California protected theeconomic position of "Californianas" (the Mexican women of theterritory) by ensuring them property rights and inheritance rights equal tothose of males. For Castañeda, the laws explain a stereotypical plot createdprimarily by male, non-Hispanic novelists: the story of an ambitiousnon-Hispanic merchant or trader desirous of marrying an elite Californiana.These novels` favorable portrayal of such women is noteworthy, sinceMexican-American historians have concluded that unflattering literary depictionsof Mexicans were vital in rallying the United States public`s support for theMexican-American War (1846–1848). The importance of economic alliances forgedthrough marriages with Californianas explains this apparent contradiction.Because of their real- life economic significance, the Californianas wereportrayed more favorably than were others of the same nationality.

请问能有人分析一下讲的是什么么，看不懂这篇文章

尤其看不懂后面一部分，说对mexican人不奉承的描写对于拉到美国支持很重要，然后这种经济联盟的重要性解释了这个矛盾。

但是 non-hispanic 的小说家明显是奉承californianas，也就是mexican人

不懂这个关系是怎么的

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