Alone at the altar : single women and devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870
Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara (Author)
This text reframes our understanding of single women and religious culture in colonial and nineteenth-century Latin America. Most works on women and early modern religion examine nuns, holy women, or religious "deviants," and emphasize rising hostility towards female autonomy as officials moved to enclose unmarried women and intensive female religiosity (e.g. mysticism, asceticism). This study takes a different approach and examines ordinary laywomen, particularly the broad population of non-elite women living outside of both marriage and convent
eBook, English, [2018]
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, [2018]