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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Myscofski, Carole A., 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013]
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women > Religious life.
Women in the Catholic Church.
Women and religion.
Catholic women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Femmes > Vie religieuse > Bresil.
Femmes dans l'Église catholique > Bresil.
Femmes et religion > Bresil.
Femmes catholiques > Bresil.
Women > Religious life > Brazil.
Women in the Catholic Church > Brazil.
Women and religion > Brazil.
Catholic women > Brazil.
Brazil.
Bresil > Histoire religieuse > Jusqu'à 1822.
Brazil > Church history > To 1822.
Church history.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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