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The Women of Colonial Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)

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I'll be honest, and say that I had to get this books bcause of an assignement I was doing in school. The professor just asked me to write on a couple of chapters, kind of like a book review, but I was hooked! After I was done with the assignment I HAD to read the whole book, because It was really imformative, and interesting to read. I'm a history major, and as other historians know, the subject of women historically, has been in the dark since the beginning of time. Only recently have historians began to write about women. Socolow does a great job in her book, which focuses on women in Latin America She begins with the Spanish conquest of the New world and talks about the indigenous people before Columbus. Socolow includes the arrival of African women along with European ones. She goes on to talk about women, marriage, and family, the religious women and all about how the elite ones spent their time. Socolow touches on women and work and about slavery, and of course about their social deviance, like crime, withcraft and rebellions. It really is an outstanding book and I truly recommend it!

It's a complete new perpective of the conquest and colonization. I read it for my history class and I loved it. It's an interesting reading.

The book was a very good collection of stories of the women of Colonial Latin America-but the stories were dull at times, and I just thought that there should have been more detail in regard to the actual women's lives.

Very good read. "The Women of Colonial Latin America" covers the many diverse people who were in Latin America. Excellent read.

Excellent condition, barely any wear on cover of book, no bent pages, no writing in book