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

Contributor(s): Jaffary, Nora E, 1968-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and gender in the early modern world: Publisher: Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780754651895 (alk. paper); 0754651894 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Women -- America -- History | Sex role -- America -- History | Women and religion -- America | America -- Colonization -- Social aspects | America -- Race relations | Indigenous women -- America -- Social conditions | Women | Gender identity | Gender roles | Role behaviorLOC classification: HQ1400 | .G46 2007Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : contextualizing race, gender and religion in the New World / Nora E. Jaffary -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : contextualizing race, gender and religion in the New World / Nora E. Jaffary -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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