Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Reyes, Barbara.

Title Private women, public lives [electronic resource] : gender and the missions of the Californias / Barbara O. Reyes.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 231 p. : ill., maps.
Series Chicana matters 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 -- Barbara Gandiaga : race and agency at Mission Santo Tomas -- Eulalia Callis : privilege and power in the colonial Californias -- Eulalia Perez : gender and labor in the Spanish frontier -- Conclusion : women in the public missions of the Californias.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0292718969 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292718968 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only