Women of the Iberian Atlantic /

The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Contributors utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class, family, health, and religious practices in the Atlantic basin. Unlik...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mangan, Jane E., 1969-, Owens, Sarah E., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
Women > Social conditions
Women
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Femmes > Iberique, Peninsule > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Iberique, Peninsule > Histoire.
Femmes > Atlantique, Region de l' > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire.
Women > Iberian Peninsula > Social conditions.
Women > Iberian Peninsula > History.
Women > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions.
Women > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Portuguese colonies.
Spanish colonies.
Portugal.
Spain.
Atlantic Ocean Region
Europe > Iberian Peninsula
Iberique, Peninsule.
Iberian Peninsula.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Navigating the Atlantic Divide : Women, Education, and Literacy in Iberia and the Americas / Lisa Vollendorf
  • An Ocean Apart : Refraining Gender in the Spanish Empire / Allyson M. Poska
  • Spanish Women in the Caribbean, 1493-1540 / Ida Altman
  • Indigenous Women as Mothers in Conquest-Era Peru / Jane E. Mangan
  • Women and Kinship in Spanish East Texas at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Carla Gerona
  • Cloistered Women in Health Care : The Convent of Jesus Maria, Mexico City / Sarah E. Owens
  • The Role and Practices of the Female Folk Healer in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World / Timothy D. Walker
  • The Botany of Colonial Medicine : Gender, Authority, and Natural History in the Empires of Spain and Portugal / Hugh Glenn Cagle
  • Mother Nganga : Women Experts in the Bantu-Atlantic Spiritual Cultures of the Iberian Atlantic World / Ras Michael Brown
  • Gendering the African Diaspora in the Iberian Atlantic : Religious Brotherhoods and the Cabildos de Nacion / Matt D. Childs.

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