Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Amazons and Others 1
5. Chapter one. Amazons and Cannibals: Imagining Brazilian Women in the Colonial Period 19
6. Chapter two. The Body of Virtues: The Christian Ideal for Brazilian Women 55
7. Chapter three. Reading, Writing, and Sewing: Education for Brazilian Women 84
8. Chapter four. Before the Church Doors: Women as Wives and Concubines 107
9. Chapter five. Freiras and Recolhidas: The Reclusive Life for Brazilian Women 143
10. Chapter six. Women and Magic: Religious Dissidents in Colonial Brazil 183
11. Conclusion. Closing the Colonial Era 228
12. Notes 239
13. Bibliography 271
14. Index 291