Amazons, wives, nuns, and witches : women and the Catholic church in colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 /

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The Roman Catholic Church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Cathol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Myscofski, Carole A., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. thirty-two.
Temas:
To 1822
Catholic women > Brazil.
Women and religion > Brazil.
Women in the Catholic Church > Brazil.
Women > Religious life > Brazil.
Femmes catholiques > Brésil.
Femmes et religion > Brésil.
Femmes dans l'Église catholique > Brésil.
Femmes > Vie religieuse > Brésil.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Catholic women.
Women and religion.
Women in the Catholic Church.
Women > Religious life.
Brazil > Church history > To 1822.
Brésil > Histoire religieuse > Jusqu'à 1822.
Brazil.
Church history.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction. Amazons and Others; 1. Amazons and Cannibals: Imagining Brazilian Women in the Colonial Period; 2. The Body of Virtues: The Christian Ideal for Brazilian Women; 3. Reading, Writing, and Sewing: Education for Brazilian Women; 4. Before the Church Doors: Women as Wives and Concubines; 5. Freiras and Recolhidas: The Reclusive Life for Brazilian Women; 6. Women and Magic: Religious Dissidents in Colonial Brazil; Conclusion. Closing the Colonial Era; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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