Allyson M. Poska's Books

Using a wide array of archival documentation, including Inquisition records, wills, dowry contracts, folklore, and court cases, Poska examines how early modern Spanish peasant women asserted and perceived their authority within the family and community and how the large numbers of female-headed households in the region functioned in the absence of men.

Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows them across the Atlantic to Montevideo. However, before the last ships reached the Americas, harsh weather, disease, and the prospect of mutiny on the Patagonian coast forced the Crown to abandon the project. Eventually, the peasant colonists were resettled in towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bought slaves, and gradually integrated into colonial society. Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants’ gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

Using parish records to reconstruct local religious culture, this volume examines the relationship between the expectations of the Catholic Reformation and the religious practices and beliefs of parishioners in the diocese of Ourense in northwestern Spain.

Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants' gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

Book's by Allyson M. Poska

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain

Gendered Crossings

Gendered Crossings

Regulating the People

Regulating the People

Gendered Crossings

Gendered Crossings

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain

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