Description
Book SynopsisWriting Brazilian women back into history, this book presents the first comprehensive study in English of how women experienced and understood their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and the colonial era Roman Catholic
Trade ReviewThe insights related to women in convents and changes in magic as an aspect of religious practice and everyday life will be interesting to scholars. * The Americas *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Amazons and Others
- Chapter 1. Amazons and Cannibals: Imagining Brazilian Women in the Colonial Period
- Chapter 2. The Body of Virtues: The Christian Ideal for Brazilian Women
- Chapter 3. Reading, Writing, and Sewing: Education for Brazilian Women
- Chapter 4. Before the Church Doors: Women as Wives and Concubines
- Chapter 5. Freiras and Recolhidas: The Reclusive Life for Brazilian Women
- Chapter 6. Women and Magic: Religious Dissidents in Colonial Brazil
- Conclusion. Closing the Colonial Era
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
