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The Women of Colonial Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)

The Women of Colonial Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)

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Susan Migden Socolow
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 2/16/2015
EAN 9780521196659, ISBN10: 0521196655

Hardcover, 272 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women.

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
12. Conclusion.