Private women, public lives

Reyes, Bárbara.

Private women, public lives gender and the missions of the Californias / [electronic resource] : Bárbara O. Reyes. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009. - xi, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Chicana matters series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Catholic Church--Missions--History--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula)--18th century.
Catholic Church--Missions--History--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula)--19th century.
Catholic Church--Missions--History--California--18th century.
Catholic Church--Missions--History--California--19th century.


Women--Social conditions--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula)--18th century.
Women--Social conditions--Mexico--Baja California (Peninsula)--19th century.
Women--Social conditions--California--18th century.
Women--Social conditions--California--19th century.


Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)--History.
California--History--To 1846.


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