Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600

Contents
	Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	1 Pre-Hispanic Gender Roles under the Aztecs and the Incas
	Gender Parallelism and Gender Complementarity
	Political Organization
	Cosmology
	Sexuality and Marriage
	Economy and Labor
	2 The Spanish Invasion of the Americas: A Gendered Collision
	Colonial Transformations of Indigenous Gender Roles and Gender Relations
	Gender Parallelism
	and Gender Complementarity Transformed
	Political Organization
	Religion (Cosmology)
	Sexuality, Marriage, and Household
	Economy and Labor
	3 Colonial Sexuality: Of Women, Men, and Mestizaje
	The First Mestizos
	The Increasing Presence of Spanish Women
	Declining Status of Indian and Mestiza Women
	4 Women\'s Domination under Colonial Rule
	Sexual Abuse by the Clergy
	Domestic Violence
	Wife Abandonment
	Religious Abuse
	5 Spanish Gender Ideologies: Prescriptions, Realities, and New World Constructions
	Marriage and Divorce
	Honor, Sex, and Sin
	Concubinage, Adultery, and Bigamy
	Illegitimacy
	Prostitution
	6 Invisible Workers: Women\'s Labor under Spanish Rule
	Rural Indigenous Women
	Pre-Hispanic Tribute and Labor Systems
	Urban Women
	Elite Women
	Women os Property Holders
	Religious Women
	7 Women\'s Empowerment under Spanish Rule
	Women Warriors
	Women Encomenderas
	Women and Conventual Life
	Convent Politics
	Indigenous Women and Reproductive Resistance
	Indigenous Women and the Spanish Judicial System
	Indigenous Women and Religious Empowerment
	Mysticism
	Witchcraft
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
	Index