Synopses & Reviews
Traces the effects of conquest, colonization, and settlement on women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America.
Review
"This text will be especially useful to teachers of Latin American survey courses. The book rests solidly on the expanding base of articles and books now available to scholars. This is a good first book on the topic for readers at all levels." Choice
Review
"Drawing upon a wealth of scholarship produced in the past thirty years, this engagingly written volume provides the best synthesis to date of its ambitious and wide-ranging topic...Specialists and non-specialists alike will come away from this text with a richer understanding of the opportunities and challenges that shaped the lives of women in the America ruled by Spain and Portugal." Luso-Brazilian Review
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.