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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gauderman, Kimberly, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
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.