Women in the Conquest of the Americas - Maura, Juan Francisco
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The erroneous idea that the "conquistadors" came to the New World without female company has been perpetuated even to our day. This book dispels this myth by demonstrating, through the use of texts and documents of the conquest, how crucial the presence of women was in the enterprise of the Americas. Women had never before had to overcome such physical difficulties as those encountered in this period of world history.

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The erroneous idea that the "conquistadors" came to the New World without female company has been perpetuated even to our day. This book dispels this myth by demonstrating, through the use of texts and documents of the conquest, how crucial the presence of women was in the enterprise of the Americas. Women had never before had to overcome such physical difficulties as those encountered in this period of world history.
Autorenporträt
The Author: Juan Francisco Maura, a United States citizen born in Spain, received his B.A. from the University of Texas and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. He is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, his publications include a book on the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca (Los Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: O el arte de la automitificación, Mexico 1988), and a critical edition of Naufragios.