Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 : texts and contexts /
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| Imprint: | Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2018] |
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| Description: | xxvii, 286 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11694206 |
Table of Contents:
- Grant of Tacuba by Hernan Cortos to Isabel Moctezuma, firstborn daughter of Moctezuma II and her last will and testament (Mexico City, 1526, 1550)
- Beatriz, India's lawsuit for freedom from slavery (Castile, Spain, 1558-1574) / introduction and translation by Nancy E. van Deusen
- Women's wills (Potoso, 1577 and 1601; La Plata, 1598 and 1658
- Midwife Francisca Diaz's petition to return to Mexico (Seville, 1566)
- Life and love in women's letters to spouses (Spain and Mexico, 1567-1576)
- Mothers and wives in labor agreements (Arequipa, 1590; La Plata, 1602; and Potoso, 1571 and 1659)
- Criminal complaint by Angela de Palacios on behalf of her daughter, Leonor Arias (Potoso, 1584)
- Barbara Lopez, India accuses her husband of abuse (Santa Fe, Colombia 1612)
- Sor Ana's "Travel excerpt from Mexico to Manila" (Mexico and Manila, 1620) introduction and translation by Sara E. Owens
- The spiritual diary of an afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesus (Lima, 1647-1661) / translation by Nancy E. van Deusen
- Isabel Hernandez, midwife and healer, appears before the inquisition. (Mexico, 1652)
- Do Juan de Vargas y Orellana accuses his wife Doa Francisca de Marquina of abortion. (Potoso, 1703)
- Founding Corpus Christi, a convent for indigenous women (Mexico City, 1723)
- An African woman petitions for freedom in a colonial Brazilian mining town. (Vila Rica, Brazil, 1766) / introduction and translation by Mariana Dantas
- Isabel Victoria Garcia sues the Hacienda del Trapiche over land ownership (Pamplona, Colombia, 1777)
- Between heaven and earth: Thereza de Jesus Jozo's last will and testament (Cachoeira, Bahia, 1777) / introduction and translation by Caroline Garriott
- Natividad, negra, sues her owner for freedom (Lima, 1792)
- A colonial crossdresser (Mexico, 1796)
- Anna Gallum, freed slave and property owner (Florida, 1801). introduction and translation by Jane Landers
- A female slave owner's abuse of an enslaved woman (Neiva, Colombia, 1803)
- Maria del Carmen Ventura's criminal trial for infanticide (Zaqualtipan, Mexico, 1806).
