Women of the Iberian Atlantic

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Women of the Iberian Atlantic: Gendered Dimensions of Empire 1 Sar ah E. OwEnS and JanE E. Mangan 1 Navigating the Atlantic Divide: Women, Education, and Literacy in Iberia and the Americas 18 LiSa VOLLEndOrf 2 An Ocean Apart: Reframing Gender in the Spanish Empire 37 aLLySOn M. POSk a 3 Spanish Women in the Caribbean, 1493–1540 57 ida aLtMan 4 Indigenous Women as Mothers in Conquest-Era Peru 82 JanE E. Mangan 5 Women and Kinship in Spanish East Texas at the End of the Eighteenth Century 101 CarL a gErOna 6 Cloistered Women in Health Care: The Convent of Jesús María, Mexico City 128 nuria SaL a z ar SiMarrO and Sar ah E. OwEnS vi Contents 7 The Role and Practices of the Female Folk Healer in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World 148 tiMOthy d. waLkEr 8 The Botany of Colonial Medicine: Gender, Authority, and Natural History in the Empires of Spain and Portugal 174 hugh gLEnn CagLE 9 Mother Nganga: Women Experts in the Bantu-Atlantic Spiritual Cultures of the Iberian Atlantic World 196 r aS MiChaEL brOwn 10 Gendering the African Diaspora in the Iberian Atlantic: Religious Brotherhoods and the Cabildos de Nación 230 Matt d. ChiLdS Contributors 263 Index 267 ...