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Author Reyes, Bárbara.

Title Private women, public lives : gender and the missions of the Californias / Bárbara O. Reyes
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Chicana matters series
Chicana matters series.
Contents Introduction : gender and public space in the nineteenth-century Californias -- "For the riches of its souls" : the Society of Jesus in Antigua California -- "To teach the natives love and loyalty toward the Spanish monarch" : the Order of the Predicants of Santo Domingo in Baja California -- "[For its] very large and fine harbor" : the Franciscans of the College of San Fernando in Alta California -- Bárbara Gandiaga : race and agency at Mission Santo Tomás -- Eulalia Callis : privilege and power in the colonial Californias -- Eulalia Pérez : gender and labor in the Spanish frontier -- Conclusion : women in the public missions of the Californias
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- History -- 18th century
Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- History -- 19th century
Catholic Church -- Missions -- California -- History -- 18th century
Catholic Church -- Missions -- California -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Women -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Women -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women -- California -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Women -- California -- Social conditions -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Missions
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- History
California -- History -- To 1846. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018880
Subject California
Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292799240
0292799241