Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
Subtitle: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Nov 15, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780292748538
Description: The Roman Catholic Church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church's ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women's daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constituting a separate world for wives, mothers, concubines, nuns, and witches --
Notes: Source title: Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture)