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3. Transatlantic Ties: Women’s Writing in Iberia and the Americas
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Contributors ix
- Introduction 1
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PART I. Theoretical Reflections on Women and Religion from an Atlantic Perspective
- 1. Rethinking the Catholic Reformation: The Role of Women 31
- 2. The Religious Lives of Singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic World: Quaker Missionaries, Protestant Nuns, and Covert Catholics 60
- 3. Transatlantic Ties: Women’s Writing in Iberia and the Americas 79
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PART II. Negotiating Belief and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Basin
- 4. Prophets and Helpers: African American Women and the Rise of Black Christianity in the Age of the Slave Trade 115
- 5. ‘The Most Resplendent Flower of the Indies’: Making Saints and Constructing Whiteness in Colonial Peru 136
- 6. Missionary Men and the Global Currency of Female Sanctity 156
- 7. Patriarchs, Petitions, and Prayers: Intersections of Gender and Calidad in Colonial Mexico 180
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PART III. Authority and Identity in the Catholic Atlantic
- 8. Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala 205
- 9. A Judaizing ‘Old Christian’ Woman and the Mexican Inquisition: The ‘Unusual’ Case of María de Zárate 223
- 10. A World of Women and a World of Men? Pueblo Witchcraft in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico 252
- 11. The Maidens, the Monks, and Their Mothers: Patriarchal Authority and Holy Vows in Colonial Lima, 1650–1715 275
- Works Cited 303
- Index 335
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Contributors ix
- Introduction 1
-
PART I. Theoretical Reflections on Women and Religion from an Atlantic Perspective
- 1. Rethinking the Catholic Reformation: The Role of Women 31
- 2. The Religious Lives of Singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic World: Quaker Missionaries, Protestant Nuns, and Covert Catholics 60
- 3. Transatlantic Ties: Women’s Writing in Iberia and the Americas 79
-
PART II. Negotiating Belief and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Basin
- 4. Prophets and Helpers: African American Women and the Rise of Black Christianity in the Age of the Slave Trade 115
- 5. ‘The Most Resplendent Flower of the Indies’: Making Saints and Constructing Whiteness in Colonial Peru 136
- 6. Missionary Men and the Global Currency of Female Sanctity 156
- 7. Patriarchs, Petitions, and Prayers: Intersections of Gender and Calidad in Colonial Mexico 180
-
PART III. Authority and Identity in the Catholic Atlantic
- 8. Atlantic World Monsters: Monstrous Births and the Politics of Pregnancy in Colonial Guatemala 205
- 9. A Judaizing ‘Old Christian’ Woman and the Mexican Inquisition: The ‘Unusual’ Case of María de Zárate 223
- 10. A World of Women and a World of Men? Pueblo Witchcraft in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico 252
- 11. The Maidens, the Monks, and Their Mothers: Patriarchal Authority and Holy Vows in Colonial Lima, 1650–1715 275
- Works Cited 303
- Index 335