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- Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Texas Press
- Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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Writing 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 Church.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction. Amazons and Others
- pp. 1-18
- Conclusion. Closing the Colonial Era
- pp. 228-238
- Bibliography
- pp. 271-290
Additional Information
ISBN
9780292748545
Related ISBN(s)
9780292748538
MARC Record
OCLC
868953004
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-06
Language
English
Open Access
No
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