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

Title
Amazons, wives, nuns, and witches : women and the Catholic church in colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 / Carole A. Myscofski.
Author
Myscofski, Carole A., 1954-
Publication
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.

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Description
x, 308 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; Book thirty-two
Uniform Title
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 32.
Subject
  • To 1822
  • Women in the Catholic Church > Brazil
  • Catholic women > Brazil
  • Women and religion > Brazil
  • Women > Religious life > Brazil
  • Catholic women
  • Women and religion
  • Women in the Catholic Church
  • Women > Religious life
  • Brazil > Church history > To 1822
  • Brazil
Genre/Form
Church history.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
Contents
Amazons and others -- Amazons and cannibals : imagining Brazilian women in the colonial period -- The body of virtues : the Christian ideal for Brazilian women -- Reading, writing, and sewing : education for Brazilian women -- Before the church doors : women as wives and concubines -- Freiras and recolhidas : the reclusive life for Brazilian women -- Women and magic : religious dissidents in colonial Brazil -- Closing the colonial era.
Call Number
JFE 15-3202
ISBN
  • 9780292748538 (alk. paper)
  • 0292748531 (alk. paper)
  • 029274854X (electronic bk.)
  • 9780292748545 (electronic bk.)
LCCN
2012050638
OCLC
830663870
Author
Myscofski, Carole A., 1954-
Title
Amazons, wives, nuns, and witches : women and the Catholic church in colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 / Carole A. Myscofski.
Publisher
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; Book thirty-two
Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 32.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
Chronological Term
To 1822
Sudoc No.
Z UA380.8 M998am txdocs
Research Call Number
JFE 15-3202
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