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Gender, race and religion in the colonization of the Americas / edited by Nora E. Jaffary.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Jaffary, Nora E., 1968-
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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