Women of the Iberian Atlantic Available to Purchase

This collection of essays explores the variegated experiences of women in the early modern Iberian Atlantic. As such, it casts a wide net, highlighting a diversity of female subjects whose lives, though different in many respects, were all shaped by cultural traditions — including legal codes, marriage and family mores, gender expectations, and Roman Catholic religiosity — that were common across the vast global expanses of the Iberian empires. Indeed, the concepts of global and Iberian are as key to this volume as is the topic of women, for the editors and contributors propose provocative alternatives to traditional approaches to Atlantic studies as well as Iberian and Ibero-American studies. Justifying their inclusion of cases from colonial Peru and Portuguese Goa in a volume on the Atlantic world, the editors argue that “the transatlantic movement of peoples in this era demands that analysis of historical themes be integrated on local and...