Private women, public lives
Subtitle: gender and the missions of the Californias
By: Bárbara O. Reyes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Chicana matters series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780292718968
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- History -- 18th century; Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- History -- 19th century; Catholic Church -- Missions -- California -- History -- 18th century; Catholic Church -- Missions -- California -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Women -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Women -- California -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Women -- California -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- History; California -- History -- To 1846
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "For the riches of its souls" : The Society of Jesus in Antigua California; title: "To teach the natives love and loyalty toward the Spanish monarch" : The Order of the Predicants of Santo Domingo in Baja California; title: "[For its] very large and fine harbor" : The Franciscans of the College of San Fernando in Alta California; title: Bárbara Gandiaga : race and agency at Mission Santo Tomás; title: Eulalia Callis : privilege and power in the colonial Californias; title: Eulalia Pérez : gender and labor in the Spanish frontier; title: Conclusion : women in the public missions of the Californias.