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xii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Women and gender in the early modern world
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Women and gender in the early modern world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-202) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Women -- America -- History.
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Women. |
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America. |
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History. |
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Sex role -- America -- History.
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Sex role. |
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Women and religion -- America.
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Women and religion. |
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America -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
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Colonization. |
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Social aspects. |
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America -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Indigenous women -- America -- Social conditions.
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Indigenous women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Jaffary, Nora E., 1968-
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| ISBN |
9780754651895 alkaline paper |
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0754651894 alkaline paper |
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