Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why 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
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
- Plate section
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why 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
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
- Plate section
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- The Women of Colonial Latin America , pp. 181 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000