I have a student who wants to research the transition from local religions to Catholicism as Christianity was introduced in Mexico, and the subsequent influence that transition had on women's lives. I have referred her to Roman Gutierrez's When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away. Are there any other titles anyone might recommend? Thanks in advance.
Aizpuro, Pilar Gonzalbo Las Mujeres en la Nueva Espana: Educacion y Vida Cotidiana
Behar, Translated Woman
Burkhart, Louise The Slippery Earth
Clendinnen, Inga Aztecas; Ambivalent Conquest
Cline, S.L. Testaments of Culhuacan
Cole, Jeff, ed. The Church and Society in Latin America
Escandon, Carmen Ramos, ed. Presencia y Transperencia: La Mujer en la historia de Mexico
Farriss, Nancy Maya Society Under Colonial Rule
Lavrin, Asuncion, ed. Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America
Lockhart, James The Nahuas After The Conquest
MacCormack, Sabine work on Peru
Menchu, Rigoberta I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
Merrim, Stephanie work on Sor Juana
Nash, June Article in Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock, eds. Women and Colonization: Anthropological Perspectives
Ricard, Robert Spirtual Conquest
Rodriquez, Jeanette Our Lady of Guadalupe (U of Texas Press)
Silverblatt, Irene Moon, Sun and Witches (Peru)
Stern, Steve The Secret History of Gender
Sweet, David G. and Nash, Gary B., eds. Struggle & Survival in Colonial America
Trexler, Richard "From the Mouth of Babes: Christianization by Children in the 16th Century New Spain", in J. Davis, ed. Religious Organization and Religious Experience (NY: Academic Press, 1982)
Wood, Stephanie articles
The works of Jorge Klor de Alva, Stafford Poole and Richard Greenleaf
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