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Contents Acknowledgments ix introduCtion. Amazons and Others 1 ChaPter one. Amazons and Cannibals: Imagining Brazilian Women in the Colonial Period 19 ChaPter tWo. The Body of Virtues: The Christian Ideal for Brazilian Women 55 ChaPter three. Reading, Writing, and Sewing: Education for Brazilian Women 84 ChaPter four. Before the Church Doors: Women as Wives and Concubines 107 ChaPter five. Freiras and Recolhidas: The Reclusive Life for Brazilian Women 143 ChaPter siX. Women and Magic: Religious Dissidents in Colonial Brazil 183 ConClusion. Closing the Colonial Era 228 Notes 239 Bibliography 271 Index 291 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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