Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributor Notes -- Introduction: Contextualizing Race, Gender and Religion in the New World -- Part 1: Frontiers -- 2 Women as Go-Betweens? Patterns in Sixte…
"When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded and participated in multiple ways. By adopting a comprehensive view of female agency, the essays in this collectio…
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations for Archival Sources in the Notes, Appendixes, and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Midwifery, Monstrosity, and Motherhood -- Part I: Purity and Productivity: Understanding Virginity, Conception, and Pregnancy -- 1. The Evo…
"In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its prevention, and birth. Tracking Mexico's transition from colony to nation, Jaffary demonstrates …