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Private women, public lives gender and the missions of the Californias
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Title
Private women, public lives [electronic resource] : gender and the missions of the Californias / Bárbara O. Reyes.
ISBN
0292718969 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292718968 (cloth : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xi, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2010
Series
Chicana matters series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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