The Women of Colonial Latin AmericaIn 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. |
Contents
Conquest and Colonization | 34 |
The Arrival of Iberian Women | 56 |
Women Marriage and Family | 66 |
Elite Women | 84 |
The Brides of Christ and Other Religious Women | 97 |
Women and Work | 120 |
Women and Slavery | 140 |
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