LEADER 04456nam 22007211 450 001 9910788314103321 005 20230803032544.0 010 $a0-292-74854-X 024 7 $a10.7560/748538 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060209 035 $a(EBL)3443693 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001042080 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11589830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001042080 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11061800 035 $a(PQKB)11122412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443693 035 $a(OCoLC)868953004 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25092 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443693 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10768926 035 $a(OCoLC)932314371 035 $a(DE-B1597)587978 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944969 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292748545 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060209 100 $a20130316h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmazons, wives, nuns, and witches $ewomen and the Catholic church in colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 /$fby Carole A. Myscofski 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 0 $aLouann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series 225 0$aLouann Atkins Temple women & culture series ;$vbook thirty-two 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-74853-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. Amazons and Others""; ""1. Amazons and Cannibals: Imagining Brazilian Women in the Colonial Period""; ""2. The Body of Virtues: The Christian Ideal for Brazilian Women""; ""3. Reading, Writing, and Sewing: Education for Brazilian Women""; ""4. Before the Church Doors: Women as Wives and Concubines""; ""5. Freiras and Recolhidas: The Reclusive Life for Brazilian Women""; ""6. Women and Magic: Religious Dissidents in Colonial Brazil""; ""Conclusion. Closing the Colonial Era""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $aThe Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women?s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church?s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women?s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constituting a separate world for wives, mothers, concubines, nuns, and witches. Drawing on extensive original research in primary manuscript and printed sources from Brazilian libraries and archives, as well as secondary Brazilian historical works, Carole Myscofski proposes to write Brazilian women back into history, to understand how they lived their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and Luso-Catholic ecclesiastical institutions. Myscofski offers detailed explorations of the Catholic colonial views of the ideal woman, the patterns in women?s education, the religious views on marriage and sexuality, the history of women?s convents and retreat houses, and the development of magical practices among women in that era. One of the few wide-ranging histories of women in colonial Latin America, this book makes a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the early modern Atlantic World. 410 0$aLouann Atkins Temple Women and Culture Series 606 $aCatholic women$zBrazil 606 $aWomen and religion$zBrazil 606 $aWomen in the Catholic Church$zBrazil 606 $aWomen$xReligious life$zBrazil 607 $aBrazil$xChurch history$yTo 1822 615 0$aCatholic women 615 0$aWomen and religion 615 0$aWomen in the Catholic Church 615 0$aWomen$xReligious life 676 $a282/.81082 700 $aMyscofski$b Carole A.$f1954-$01532244 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788314103321 996 $aAmazons, wives, nuns, and witches$93778330 997 $aUNINA