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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: Contextualizing Race, Gender, and Religion in the New World, Nora E. Jaffary . . . 1-28 Part I: Frontiers 2. Women as Go-Betweens? Patterns in Sixteenth-Century Brazil, Alida C. Metcalf . . . 30-65 3. Gender and Violence: Conquest, Conversion, and Culture on New Spain¿s Imperial Frontier, Bruce A. Erickson . . . 66-90 4. The Very Sinews of a New Colony: Demographic Determinism and the History of Early Georgia Women, 1732-1752, Ben Marsh . . . 91-127 Part II: Female Religious 5. The Convent as Missionary in Seventeenth-Century France, Susan Broomhall . . . 129-153 6. ¿Although I am black, I am beautiful¿: Juana Esperanza de San Alberto, Black Carmelite of Puebla, Joan C. Bristol . . . 154-188 7. Andean Women in Religion: Beatas, ¿Deceny¿, and the defense of Honor in Colonial Cuzco, Kathryn Burns . . . 187-217 Part III: Race Mixing 8. Incest, Sexual Virtue, and Social Mobility in Late Colonial Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary . . . 219-251 9. ¿An Empire Founded on Libertinage¿: The Mulâtresse and Colonial Anxiety in Saint Domingue, Yvonne Fabella . . . 252-288 10. Mediating Mackinac: Métis Women¿s Cultural Persistence in the Upper Great Lakes, Bethany Fleming . . . 289-314 Part IV: Networks 11. Circuits of Knowledge among Women in Early-Seventeenth-Century Lima, Nancy E. van Deusen . . . 316-352 12. Waters of Faith, Currents of Freedom: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in Inter-imperial Trade between Curaçao and Tierra Firme, Linda M. Rupert . . . 363-387 13. Afterword: Women in the Atlantic World, Patricia Seed . . . 388-405 Bibliography . . . 406-481
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women -- America -- History.
Sex role -- America -- History.
Women and religion -- America.
America -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
America -- Race relations.
Indigenous women -- America -- Social conditions.