Private women, public lives gender and the missions of the Californias /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reyes, Bárbara
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Chicana matters series.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.