The women of colonial Latin America
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The women of colonial Latin America
（New approaches to the Americas）
Cambridge University Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents an overview of the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America. Beginning with the cultures that would produce the Latin American world, the book traces the effects of conquest, colonization, and settlement on colonial women. The book also examines the expectations, responsibilities, and limitations facing women in their varied roles, stressing the ways in which race, social status, occupation, and space altered women's social and economic realities.
Table of Contents
- 1. Iberian women in the Old World and the New
- 2. Before Columbus: women in indigenous America and Africa
- 3. Conquest and colonization
- 4. The arrival of Iberian women
- 5. Women, marriage, and family
- 6. Elite women
- 7. The 'Brides of Christ' and other religious women
- 8. Women and work
- 9. Women and slavery
- 10. Women and social deviance: crime, witchcraft, and rebellion
- 11. Women and Enlightenment reform.
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