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.
- ISBN13 9780521476423
- Publish Date 18 May 2000
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 1 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 264
- Language English