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Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America
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In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highway. The life of the Nun Ensign highlights not just her extraordinary life but also the opportunities seized by women in colonial Latin America. This book profiles the Nun Ensign and nine other women of colonial Latin America, offering an alternate method for understanding the region and its history. The ten figures span different ethnic, geographic, occupational, and class backgrounds. Through their stories, the reader comes away with an enriched understanding of colonial Latin American history.
Title: Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America
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In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru.
She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head.
Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life.
The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highway.
The life of the Nun Ensign highlights not just her extraordinary life but also the opportunities seized by women in colonial Latin America.
This book profiles the Nun Ensign and nine other women of colonial Latin America, offering an alternate method for understanding the region and its history.
The ten figures span different ethnic, geographic, occupational, and class backgrounds.
Through their stories, the reader comes away with an enriched understanding of colonial Latin American history.
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