Private women, public lives [electronic resource] : gender and the missions of the Californias / Bárbara O. Reyes.
Series: Chicana matters seriesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSubject(s):- 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
- 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
- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- History
- California -- History -- To 1846
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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