Asuncion Lavrin (editor) - Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

edited by Asuncion Lavrin

southeastern Illinois collegf

Harrisburg, il 62945

37573

Latin American Women

Contributions in Womens Studies

The Chains of Protection: The Judicial Response to Womens Labor

Legislation

Judith A. Baer

Womens Studies: An Interdisciplinary Collection

Kathleen OConnor Blumhagen and Walter D. Johnson, editors

Contributions in Womens Studies, Number 3

Greenwood Press

Westport, Connecticut London, England

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

Latin American women.

(Contributions in womens studies; no. 3)

Includes index.

1. WomenLatin AmericaHistoryAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. WomenLatin America

Social conditionsAddresses, essays, lectures.

I. Lavrin, Asuncion. II. Series.

HQ1460.5.L37 301.412098 77-94758

ISBN 0-313-20309-1

Copyright 1978 by Asuncion Lavrin

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-94758 ISBN: 0-313-20309-1 ISSN: 0147-104X

First published in 1978

Greenwood Press, Inc.

51 Riverside Avenue, Westport, Connecticut 06880 Printed in the United States of America

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Contents

Tables vii

Figures ix

Illustrations xi

Foreword xiii

Introduction 3

1. In Search of the Colonial Woman in Mexico:

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Asuncion Lavrin 23

2. Female and Family in the Economy and Society of Colonial Brazil

A. J. R. Russell- Wood 60

3. Indian Women and White Society: The Case of Sixteenth-Century Peru

Elinor C. Burkett 101

4. Women in a Noble Family: The Mexican Counts of Regia, 1750-1830

Edith Couturier 129

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5. The Indian Nuns of Mexico Citys Monasterio of Corpus Christi, 1724-1821

Ann Miriam Gallagher, R.S.M.

6. The Feminine Orders in Colonial Bahia, Brazil: Economic, Social, and Demographic Implications, 1677-1800

Susan A. Soeiro

7. The Feminine Press: The View of Women in the Colonial Journals of Spanish America, 1790-1810 Johanna S. R. Mendelson

8. The Participation of Women in the Independence Movement in Gran Colombia, 1780-1830 Evelyn Cherpak

9. Education, Philanthropy, and Feminism: Components of Argentine Womanhood, 1860-1926 Cynthia Jeffress Little

10. The Nineteenth-Century Feminist Press and Womens Rights in Brazil

JuneE. Hahner

11. Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Womens Liberation in Mexico

Anna Macias

12. Some Final Considerations on Trends and Issues in Latin American Womens History Asuncion Lavrin

Index

About the Contributors

Contents

Tables

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Figures

2.1 Number of Children Born to First Marriages 81

4.1 Select Genealogy of the Regia Family 131

Illustrations

Illustrations appear in an insert following page 184.

1. Idealized Picture of the Incas of Peru

2. Women in a Chilean Tertulia

3. Bahian Lady

4. Colombian Woman in Riding Dress

5. Tapada of Lima

6. Rabona (Camp Follower in Peru)

7. Indian Vendors in Yucatan (Mexico)

8. Ladies of Tarija, Argentina

9. Araucanian Women Weaving a Poncho

10. Chola Beauty of Potosi