"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin America

Surveying the varied experiences of women in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America, this book traces the effects of conquest, colonisation, and settlement on

A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reachin