Women and authority in early modern Spain : the peasants of Galicia

Publication Data

• Title Women and authority in early modern Spain : the peasants of Galicia
• Author Allyson M. Poska
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Contents

Introduction: gendering peasant society
Women without men
Single women and property
Sex and the single woman
'A married man is a woman': gender tensions in Galician marriages
Widowhood
Modelling female authority
Beyond finisterre.

Topics

• Women peasants :: Spain :: Galicia (Region) :: History
• Peasantry :: Spain :: Galicia (Region) :: Social conditions
• Peasantry :: Spain :: Galicia (Region) :: Economic conditions
• Galicia (Spain : Region) :: Rural conditions
• Galicia (Spain : Region)

Women and authority in early modern Spain : the peasants of Galicia by Allyson M. Poska. ISBN 9780199265312. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.