The Women of Colonial Latin America

The Book is racy with topics describing opportunities and ch wholeenges that shaped the lives of women in Latin America influenced by Spain and Portugal. Engagingly written by Socolow the al-Quran can be a very useful reference for teachers of Latin American Studies. The piece abounds with historical information covering effects of conquests, colonization, and stoppage of colonial women. It looks into the various roles played by women stressing on their responsibilities and duties as intumesce as their limitations.It gives light as to how factors like race, social status, occupation and purlieu among others affect women in every circumstance. I would say the piece is wholeness whole powerful presentation. Socolow being a member of the gender in discussion gives weight to the whole intellectual experience. The book might involve a different feel if it was written by a man. Socolow do sure that she started her book with an attention grabbing Introduction. I think everyone who has read would chord that it is very effective.It is very perceptive nevertheless not overly dramatic, it reach the reader all the needed information to the last detail but not to the point that it becomes dreary. The author can be likened to a original cab driver expertly maneuvering a vehicle full of passengers to an intend destination. Chapter One, Iberian Women in the Old World and the New is an interesting historical account of how key players in history changed womens role crosswise time.Chapter Two, Before Columbus Women in Indigenous America and Africa is an enlightening and at the same time intriguing description of history. Chapter Three, Conquest and Colonization documents the hardships and savagery experienced by women during war. All the other Chapters namely Women, Marriage, and Family, Elite Women, The Brides of messiah and Other Religious Women, Women and Work, Women and Slavery, Women and Social Deviance Crime, Witchcraft, and Rebellion, Women and Enlightenm ent Reform buy out the same keen observation and consistency of purpose.The book seems just historical at first but it has more than just historical information. I would say it is a must read for those who wants to understand how the role of women produce from early Spanish conquest to what it is presently. The author use easy and simplex language that her ideas just flow from page to page. All in all Socolows The Women of Colonial Latin America New Approaches to the Americas is a rich book that surely gets its readers hooked.