With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700

by Karen Graubart

Based upon substantial new research, this book investigates the heterogeneity of experiences of rural and urban indigenous women in Peru during the first two centuries of Spanish colonization. Using wills, as well as other notarial and legal documents, it discusses changes in their working lives and how their identity as "Indians" as well as women was shaped in a multicultural society. From their utilization of colonial law to seek redress, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753555
• ISBN13: 9780804753555
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"