num_pages: 264
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Women of Colonial Latin America
titlecomplete: The Women of Colonial Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)
genres: Nonfiction, History, College, Read For School
ratings_count: 117
series: New Approaches to the Americas
publisher: Cambridge University Press