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Gender, race and religion in the colonization of the Americas / edited by Nora E. Jaffary.
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- Book
- Series:
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--America--History.
- Women.
- Sex role--America--History.
- Sex role.
- Women and religion--America.
- Women and religion.
- Indigenous women.
- Social conditions.
- Colonization.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- America--Colonization--Social aspects.
- America.
- America--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Indigenous women--America--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction : contextualizing race, gender and religion in the New World / Nora E. Jaffary
- Frontiers
- Women as go-betweens? : patterns in sixteenth-century Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf
- Gender and violence : conquest, conversion and culture on New Spain's imperial frontier / Bruce A. Erickson
- The very sinews of a new colony : demographic determinism and the history of early Georgia women / Ben Marsh
- Female religious
- The convent as missionary in seventeenth-century France / Susan Broomhall
- 'Although I am black, I am beautiful' : Juana Esperanza de San Alberto, Black Carmelite of Puebla / Joan C. Bristol
- Andean women in religion : beatas, 'decency' and the defence of honor in colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns
- Race mixing
- Incest, sexual virtue and social mobility in late colonial Mexico / Nora E. Jaffary
- 'An empire founded on libertinage' : the mulâtresse and colonial anxiety in Saint Domingue / Yvonne Fabella
- Mediating Mackinac : Métis women's cultural persistence in the upper Great Lakes / Bethany Fleming
- Networks
- Circuits of knowledge among women in early seventeenth-century Lima / Nancy E. van Deusen
- Waters of faith, currents of freedom : gender, religion and ethnicity in inter-imperial trade between Curaçao and Tierra Firme / Linda M. Rupert
- Afterword : women in the Atlantic world / Patricia Seed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754651895
- 0754651894
- OCLC:
- 74987754
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