Description: The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt Childs, and Allyson Poska utilize the complexities of gender as a touchstone to understand issues of race, class, family, health, and religious practices in the Atlantic basin. Unlike previous scholarship, which has focused on upper-class and noble women, this book examines the lives of those on the periphery, such as free and enslaved Africans, colonized indigenous mothers, and poor Spanish women.
