Gender, race and religion in the colonization of the Americas
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. Erickso...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hampshire [u.a.]
Ashgate
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Edition: | Reprinted |
| Series/Journal: | Women and gender in the early modern world
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Americas
/ Woman
/ Colonialism
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Sex role (America)
History
B Women and religion (America) B Women (America) History B Frontier and pioneer life B Religion B America Colonization Social aspects B Women America Social conditions 18th century B The Americas B Women America Social conditions 17th century B History B America Race relations B Women America Social conditions 16th century B Colonialism B Miscegenation America B Indigenous women (America) Social conditions B Woman B Women Religious life America History |
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| Summary: | 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, "deceny", and the defense 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 mulatresse 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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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. [173] - 202 |
| ISBN: | 0754651894 |