The Women of Colonial Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)

This book presents an overview of the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America. Beginning with the cultures that would produce the Latin American world, the book traces the effects of conquest, colonization, and settlement on colonial women. The book also examines the expectations, responsibilities, and limitations facing women in their varied roles, stressing the ways in which race, social status, occupation, and space altered women's social and economic realities.

• Women and Gender in Modern Latin America: Historical Sources and Interpretations
• Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
• Colonial Latin America
• The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution (Penguin Classics)
• Quito 1599: City and Colony in Transition (Diálogos Series)
• Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
• Latin America in Colonial Times
• Autobiography of a Slave Autobiografia de un esclavo (English and Spanish Edition)
• African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America (Diálogos Series)