Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
15 - Women in Spanish American colonial society
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- 1 The Spanish conquest and settlement of America
- 2 Indian societies and the Spanish conquest
- 3 Spain and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 4 Spain and America: The Atlantic trade, 1492–c.1720
- 5 Spain and America in the eighteenth century
- 6 Population
- 7 Urban development
- 8 Mining
- 9 The formation and economic structure of the hacienda in New Spain
- 10 The rural economy and society of Spanish South America
- 11 Aspects of the internal economy: Labour, taxation, distribution and exchange
- 12 Social organization and social change
- 13 Indian societies under Spanish rule
- 14 Africans in Spanish American colonial society
- 15 Women in Spanish American colonial society
- 16 The Catholic church
- 17 Literature and intellectual life
- 18 Architecture and art
- 19 Music
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
As social history becomes more comprehensive in its understanding of the Spanish American colonial world, the presence of women as subjects of their own destinies and as members of the family and the community at large becomes more obvious and more relevant.
No general study of women in all Spanish America throughout the colonial period has been attempted. Most works focus on a given geographical area. Judith Prieto de Zegarra, Mujer, poder y desarrollo en el Perú, 2 vols. (Lima, 1980) is a full-length study of women in Peru from Inca times to the end of the nineteenth century. An important narrative survey of women in colonial Peru is Luis Martín, Daughters of the Conquistadors: Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru (Albuquerque, N.Mex., 1983). For Mexico, Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru, Las mujeres en la Nueva España (Mexico, D.F., 1987) presents an overview of women’s history, with emphasis on the educational factors molding their lives. On Chile, less polished but still useful is Sor María Imelda Cano, La mujer en el reyno de Chile (Santiago, Chile, 1980). For Venezuela, Armila Troconis de Veracoceha, Indias, esclavas, mantuanas y primeras damas (Caracas, 1990) offers a general descriptive view of women in the colonial period and in the first half of the nineteenth century. A general treatment of some features of the history of women in New Spain is found in Asunción Lavrin, ‘In search of the colonial woman in Mexico: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, in A. Lavrin (ed.), Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives (Westport, Conn., 1978), 23–59.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 127 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995