{"product_id":"women-in-the-crucible-of-conquest-the-gendered-genesis-of-spanish-american-society-15001600-dilogos-series-9780826335197","title":"Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society  1500-1600 (Dilogos Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe evidence of women in the Americas is conspicuously absent from most historical syntheses of the Spanish invasion and early colonization of the New World. Karen Powerss ethnohistoric account is the first to focus on non-military incidents during this transformative period. As she shows  native womens lives were changed dramatically. Women in the Crucible of Conquest uncovers the activities and experiences of women  shows how the intersection of gender  race  and class shaped their lives  and reveals the sometimes hidden ways they were integrated into social institutions. Powerss premise is that women were demoted in status across race and class and that some women resisted this trend. She describes the ways women made spaces for themselves in colonial society  in the economy  and in convents as well as other religious arenas  such as witchcraft. She shows how violence and intimidation were used to control women and writes about the place of sexual relations  especially miscegenation  in the forging of colonial social and economic structures.  From Karen Vieira Powerss Introduction:  \"During the colonization process  indigenous women suffered  perhaps  the most precipitous decline in status of any group of colonial women. For this reason  and because they were numerically superior to all other women  I have chosen to make them the heart of this book. Nevertheless  the work also treats Spanish women  racially mixed women (mestizas  mulattas  zambas  etc.)  and African women.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960438349877,"sku":"ByrdShop_0826335195","price":36.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780826335197.jpg?v=1788287088","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/women-in-the-crucible-of-conquest-the-gendered-genesis-of-spanish-american-society-15001600-dilogos-series-9780826335197","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}