Private Women, Public Lives : : Gender and the Missions of the Californias /

Private Women, Public Lives : : Gender and the Missions of the Californias / / Bárbara O. Reyes.

Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to the creation of gendered colonial relations in the Californias. She explores the function of missions and missionaries in establishing hierarchies of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Reyes, Bárbara O.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Chicana Matters
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Physical Description:1 online resource (245 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Gender and Public Space in the Nineteenth-century Californias
  • Part I Constructing Space
  • Chapter 1 “For the Riches of Its Souls”: The Society of Jesus in Antigua California
  • Chapter 2 “To Teach the Natives Love and Loyalty toward the Spanish Monarch”: The Order of the Predicants of Santo Domingo in Baja California
  • Chapter 3 “[For Its] Very Large and Fine Harbor”: The Franciscans of the College of San Fernando in Alta California
  • Part II Negotiating Space
  • Chapter 4 Bárbara Gandiaga: Race and Agency at Mission Santo Tomás
  • Chapter 5 Eulalia Callis: Privilege and Power in the Colonial Californias
  • Chapter 6 Eulalia Pérez: Gender and Labor in the Spanish Frontier
  • Conclusion: Women in the Public Missions of the Californias
  • Appendix I-A. Interrogatorio de Bárbara Gandiaga sobre la muerte del Padre Eudaldo Surroca, misionero de la Misión de Santo Tomás en la Antigua California
  • Appendix I-B Bárbara Gandiaga’s Interrogation Regarding the Death of Padre Eudaldo Surroca, Missionary at Mission Santo Tomás, Baja California
  • Appendix I-C Interrogatorio de Bárbara Gandiaga sobre la muerte del Padre Miguel López, misionero de la Misión de Santo Tomás en la Antigua California
  • Appendix I-D Bárbara Gandiaga’s Interrogation Regarding the Death of Padre Miguel López, Missionary at Santo Tomás Mission, Baja California
  • Appendix II-A Instancia de Da. Eulalia Callis, muger de Don Pedro Fages, Governador de Californias, sobre que se le oyga en justicia, y redima de la opresión que padece
  • Appendix II-B Petition by Doña Eulalia Callis, Wife of Don Pedro Fages, Governor of the Californias, That Her Case Be Heard
  • Appendix III-A Una vieja y sus recuerdos, dictados por Doña Eulalia Pérez que vive en la Misión de San Gabriel a la edad avanzada de 139 años, a D. Thomas Savage para la Bancroft Library, 1877
  • Appendix III-B An Old Woman and Her Recollections, Dictated by Doña Eulalia Pérez, Who Lives at Mission San Gabriel at the Advanced Age of 139 Years, to D. Thomas Savage for the Bancroft Library, 1877
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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