Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-202) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gender, race and religion in the colonization of the Americas

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

74987754

Responsibility statement

edited by Nora E. Jaffary

Series statement

Women and gender in the early modern world

Table Of 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

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