Escogidas plantas: nuns and beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601
ISBN: 9780231122122
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Latin American;

With this book, Jacqueline Holler demonstrates how early members of religious orders in Mexico were conceived of as an extension of the process of conversion and spiritual conquest. Over time, however, the creation of convents became a means of reaffirming the European nature of the colony, at least for its upper classes. Holler's work is based on archival research in both Mexico and Spain. It integrates much of the existing historiography while effectively telling individual stories and allowing the personalities, strengths, and foibles of some of the women involved to carry the history forward. This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on women in colonial Latin America

Jacqueline Holler received her Ph.D. in History from Emory University in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, she was Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. She has published several essays relating to women and the church in early colonial Mexico, and is currently working on a study of scrupulosity and religious obsession.

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