Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-234) and index.
Contents
Contact and conversion : the reconstruction of the "good" woman -- Magellan's legacy -- Contact and "morals" -- "Good" and "bad" women : the virgin and the whore -- Confession and flagellation : the creation of self-policing converts -- Contact and the Baylan : the elimination of the animist shaman -- Contact, conversion, and the Baylan -- Evil (and) old women -- Transvestism and the "third sex/gender" space -- Contact and the Inquisition : regendering and resistance -- The archbishop, the priest, the Holy Inquisition, and resistance in Zambales -- Holy confrontation : religion and gender in Bolinao.
