Nothing stays the same : one city, two women -- Putting women in their place -- Ambiguous authority, contingent relations : the nature of power in seventeenth-century Spanish America -- Married women and property rights -- Women and the criminal justice system -- Women as entrepreneurs -- Indigenous market women
Summary
* Undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index
Notes
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