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
- : hb
- : pb
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
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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