Women's lives in colonial Quito : gender, law, and economy in Spanish America /
* Undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2003.
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Édition: | 1st ed. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Nothing stays the same : one city, two women
- Putting women in their place
- Ambiguous authority, contingent relations : the nature of power in seventeenth-century Spanish America
- Married women and property rights
- Women and the criminal justice system
- Women as entrepreneurs
- Indigenous market women.