Author: James D. Henderson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538153017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highway. The life of the Nun Ensign highlights not just her extraordinary life but also the opportunities seized by women in colonial Latin America. This book profiles the Nun Ensign and nine other women of colonial Latin America, offering an alternate method for understanding the region and its history. The ten figures span different ethnic, geographic, occupational, and class backgrounds. Through their stories, the reader comes away with an enriched understanding of colonial Latin American history.
Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America
Author: James D. Henderson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538153017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highway. The life of the Nun Ensign highlights not just her extraordinary life but also the opportunities seized by women in colonial Latin America. This book profiles the Nun Ensign and nine other women of colonial Latin America, offering an alternate method for understanding the region and its history. The ten figures span different ethnic, geographic, occupational, and class backgrounds. Through their stories, the reader comes away with an enriched understanding of colonial Latin American history.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538153017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highway. The life of the Nun Ensign highlights not just her extraordinary life but also the opportunities seized by women in colonial Latin America. This book profiles the Nun Ensign and nine other women of colonial Latin America, offering an alternate method for understanding the region and its history. The ten figures span different ethnic, geographic, occupational, and class backgrounds. Through their stories, the reader comes away with an enriched understanding of colonial Latin American history.
Ten Notable Women of Latin America
Author: James D. Henderson
Publisher: Burnham, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780882295961
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Biografieën van de volgende Latijns Amerikaanse vrouwen: Malinche, Inés de Suárez, Catalina de Erauzo (The nun Ensign), Inés de la Cruz, Policarpa Salavarrieta (La Pola), Leopoldina van Habsburg, Mariana Grajales, Gabriela Mistral, Eva Perón, Tamara Bunke (Tania).
Publisher: Burnham, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780882295961
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Biografieën van de volgende Latijns Amerikaanse vrouwen: Malinche, Inés de Suárez, Catalina de Erauzo (The nun Ensign), Inés de la Cruz, Policarpa Salavarrieta (La Pola), Leopoldina van Habsburg, Mariana Grajales, Gabriela Mistral, Eva Perón, Tamara Bunke (Tania).
Ten Notable Women of Modern Latin America
Author: James D. Henderson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538153041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In 1930s rural Argentina, a determined fifteen-year-old left an isolated, poverty-stricken life to find her fortune in the “Paris of South America”—Buenos Aires. There, with few connections, little education, but plenty of persistence, Maria Eva Duarte gained a toehold in the city’s artistic scene. Eva—Evita—then navigated the radio revolution to fortune, providing for her mother and siblings along the way. She caught the eye of rising political star Colonel Juan Perón, and with him, she rode the pro-labor wave all the way to the presidential palace. The story of Eva Duarte Perón highlights not just her own extraordinary life, but the opportunities seized by women of all classes and backgrounds in post-independence modernizing Latin America. This work offers an alternate method for understanding modern Latin America and its history. The ten figures treated are ethnically mixed, of African, Indigenous, European, and mestiza heritage. They include figures from all social classes, geographic settings, and occupations seen in Latin America, and they acted over the entirety of the more than two centuries of the modern period. Through their stories, the reader comes away with a deeper understanding of this rich, diverse region.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538153041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In 1930s rural Argentina, a determined fifteen-year-old left an isolated, poverty-stricken life to find her fortune in the “Paris of South America”—Buenos Aires. There, with few connections, little education, but plenty of persistence, Maria Eva Duarte gained a toehold in the city’s artistic scene. Eva—Evita—then navigated the radio revolution to fortune, providing for her mother and siblings along the way. She caught the eye of rising political star Colonel Juan Perón, and with him, she rode the pro-labor wave all the way to the presidential palace. The story of Eva Duarte Perón highlights not just her own extraordinary life, but the opportunities seized by women of all classes and backgrounds in post-independence modernizing Latin America. This work offers an alternate method for understanding modern Latin America and its history. The ten figures treated are ethnically mixed, of African, Indigenous, European, and mestiza heritage. They include figures from all social classes, geographic settings, and occupations seen in Latin America, and they acted over the entirety of the more than two centuries of the modern period. Through their stories, the reader comes away with a deeper understanding of this rich, diverse region.
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Author: Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Latin American Women
Author: Asuncion Lavrin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313366942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This collection of essays illuminates the experiences of pre-20th-century Latin American women....There is surprisingly rich information about Indian and black women....The diverse patterns of family roles and sex polarizations, trends in the feminist movement, and women's political participation are themes of significant importance in the essays. A welcome contribution to women's studies and to Latin American history, especially since there is little available in English covering this.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313366942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This collection of essays illuminates the experiences of pre-20th-century Latin American women....There is surprisingly rich information about Indian and black women....The diverse patterns of family roles and sex polarizations, trends in the feminist movement, and women's political participation are themes of significant importance in the essays. A welcome contribution to women's studies and to Latin American history, especially since there is little available in English covering this.
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Author: Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521476423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521476423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on colonial women, beginning with the cultures that would produce Latin America.
Prominent Women in Latin America
Author: United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A biographical listing of approximately 90 prominent Latin American women.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A biographical listing of approximately 90 prominent Latin American women.
Notable Twentieth-century Latin American Women
Author: Cynthia Tompkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780313091148
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780313091148
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806
Author:
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 162466752X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin American history more broadly. Within these pages are captivating stories of enslaved African and indigenous women who protest abuse; of women who defend themselves from charges of witchcraft, cross-dressing, and infanticide; of women who travel throughout the empire or are left behind by the men in their lives; and of women’s strategies for making a living in a world of cross-cultural exchanges. Jaffary and Mangan's excellent Introduction and annotations provide context and guide readers to think critically about crucial issues related to the intersections of gender with conquest, religion, work, family, and the law." —Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 162466752X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin American history more broadly. Within these pages are captivating stories of enslaved African and indigenous women who protest abuse; of women who defend themselves from charges of witchcraft, cross-dressing, and infanticide; of women who travel throughout the empire or are left behind by the men in their lives; and of women’s strategies for making a living in a world of cross-cultural exchanges. Jaffary and Mangan's excellent Introduction and annotations provide context and guide readers to think critically about crucial issues related to the intersections of gender with conquest, religion, work, family, and the law." —Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota
Notable Latin American Women
Author: Jerome R. Adams
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786400225
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
"Straightforward and brief biographical sketches of 29 women including Doäna Marina, Juana Inâes de la Cruz, Manuela Sâaenz, and Leopoldina of Brazil"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786400225
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
"Straightforward and brief biographical sketches of 29 women including Doäna Marina, Juana Inâes de la Cruz, Manuela Sâaenz, and Leopoldina of Brazil"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.