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Women in the Crucible of 'Conquest': The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600 by Karen Vieira Powers

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The evidence of women in the Americas is conspicuously absent from most historical syntheses of the Spanish invasion and early colonisation of the New World. Karen Powers's ethnohistoric account is the first to focus on non-military incidents during this transformative period. As she shows, native women's lives were changed dramatically. This book uncovers the activities and experiences of women, shows how the intersection of gender, race, and class shaped their lives, and reveals the sometimes hidden ways they were integrated into social institutions. Powers' premise is that women were demoted in status across race and class and that some women resisted this trend. She describes the ways women made spaces for themselves in colonial society, in the economy, and in convents as well as other religious arenas, such as witchcraft. She shows how violence and intimidation were used to control women and writes about the place of sexual relations, especially miscegenation, in the forging of colonial social and economic structures.

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Karen Vieira Powers


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ISBN 9780826335197
Author Karen Vieira Powers
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint University of New Mexico Press
Publisher University of New Mexico Press

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