Holy and Rebel Amazons. The Eclipsed History of Spanish American Women.
Vendémiaire| N° d'inventaire | 23844 |
| Format | 15 x 20 |
| Détails | 411 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782363583659 |
Spanish women who came with the conquerors of the Old Continent, Indians, Black women, mixed-race women, slaves or free women...
At the crossroads of the history of gender, that of colonizations and that of societies founded on unequal treatment according to skin color, Bernard Lavallé offers a synthesis without equivalent in French on all these women, heroines or anonymous, who lived in Spanish America from the time of the conquistadors until the independence of the 19th century and who often knew how to assert their autonomy - sometimes their power - in a world dominated by the violence of patriarchy.
We know Malinche, an Indian woman born far from Mexico City, interpreter and mistress of the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Or Catalina de Erauso, who passed herself off as a man and lived picaresque adventures in Chile, Peru, and Mexico. Or Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, the Corregidora, imprisoned for several years because of her commitment to Mexican independence. But around them, through a very precise study of the archives, hundreds of other figures also emerge: women from cities or the countryside assigned to their communities, abandoned women, women on the run, nuns preserving a veritable counter-system within the enclosure, revolutionaries ready to sacrifice their lives for a national cause that was not, however, entirely their own...
A story of prejudice and oppression, but also of racial mixing and emancipation. An eclipsed story. And unfinished, since the recognition of their rights is still a struggle in most of Latin America.
Spanish women who came with the conquerors of the Old Continent, Indians, Black women, mixed-race women, slaves or free women...
At the crossroads of the history of gender, that of colonizations and that of societies founded on unequal treatment according to skin color, Bernard Lavallé offers a synthesis without equivalent in French on all these women, heroines or anonymous, who lived in Spanish America from the time of the conquistadors until the independence of the 19th century and who often knew how to assert their autonomy - sometimes their power - in a world dominated by the violence of patriarchy.
We know Malinche, an Indian woman born far from Mexico City, interpreter and mistress of the conquistador Hernán Cortés. Or Catalina de Erauso, who passed herself off as a man and lived picaresque adventures in Chile, Peru, and Mexico. Or Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, the Corregidora, imprisoned for several years because of her commitment to Mexican independence. But around them, through a very precise study of the archives, hundreds of other figures also emerge: women from cities or the countryside assigned to their communities, abandoned women, women on the run, nuns preserving a veritable counter-system within the enclosure, revolutionaries ready to sacrifice their lives for a national cause that was not, however, entirely their own...
A story of prejudice and oppression, but also of racial mixing and emancipation. An eclipsed story. And unfinished, since the recognition of their rights is still a struggle in most of Latin America.