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Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 : texts and contexts
- Title
- Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 : texts and contexts / edited, with an introduction, by Nora E. Jaffary and Jane E. Mangan.
- Publication
- ©2018
- Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2018]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxvii, 286 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Grant of Tacuba by Hernan Cortos to Isabel Moctezuma, firstborn daughter of Moctezuma II and her last will and testament (Mexico City, 1526, 1550) -- 2. Beatriz, India's lawsuit for freedom from slavery (Castile, Spain, 1558-1574) / introduction and translation by Nancy E. van Deusen -- 3. Women's wills (Potosí, 1577 and 1601; La Plata, 1598 and 1658) -- 4. Midwife Francisca Díaz's petition to return to Mexico (Seville, 1566) -- 5. gLife and love in women's letters to spouses (Spain and Mexico, 1567-1576) -- 6. Mothers and wives in labor agreements (Arequipa, 1590; La Plata, 1602; and Potosí, 1571 and 1659) -- 7. Criminal complaint by Angela de Palacios on behalf of her daughter, Leonor Arias (Potosí, 1584) -- 8. Bárbara López, India accuses her husband of abuse (Santa Fe, 1612) -- 9. Sor Ana's Travel excerpt from Mexico to Manila (Mexico and Manila, 1620) / introduction and translation by Sara E. Owens -- 10. The spiritual diary of an Afro-Peruvian mystic, Úrsula de Jesús (Lima, 1647-1661) / translation by Nancy E. van Deusen -- 11. Isabel Hernández, midwife and healer, appears before the inquisition. (Mexico, 1652) -- 12. Don Juan de Vargas y Orellana accuses his wife Doña Francisca de Marquina of abortion. (Potosí, 1703) -- 13. Founding Corpus Christi, a convent for indigenous women (Mexico City, 1723) -- 14. An African woman petitions for freedom in a colonial Brazilian mining town. (Vila Rica, 1766) / introduction and translation by Mariana Dantas -- 15. Isabel Victoria García sues the Hacienda del Trapiche over land ownership (Pamplona, Colombia, 1777) -- 16. Between heaven and earth: Thereza de Jesús Maria Jozé's last will and testament (Cachoeira, Bahia, 1777) / introduction and translation by Caroline Garriott -- 17. Natividad, Negra, sues her owner for freedom (Lima, 1792) -- 18. A colonial crossdresser (Mexico, 1796) -- 19. Anna Gallum, freed slave and property owner (Florida, 1801) / introduction and translation by Jane Landers -- 20. A female slave owner's abuse of an enslaved woman (Neiva, Colombia, 1803) -- 21. María del Carmen Ventura's criminal trial for infanticide (Zaqualtipan, Mexico, 1806).
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-372
- ISBN
- 9781624667503
- 1624667503
- 9781624667510
- 1624667511
- LCCN
- 2018009234
- 40028492801
- OCLC
- 1036283073
- Title
- Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 : texts and contexts / edited, with an introduction, by Nora E. Jaffary and Jane E. Mangan.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Publisher
- Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1830
- Added Author
- Jaffary, Nora E., 1968- editor.Mangan, Jane E., 1969- editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028492801
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-372