Martha Few

Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala

Preface Chapter 1. Contested Powers: Gender, Culture, and the Process of Colonial Rule Chapter 2. Society and Colonial Authority in Santiago de Guatemala Chapter 3. Magical Violence and the Body Chapter 4. Illness, Healing, and the Supernatural World Chapter 5. Female Sorcery, Material Life, and Urban Community Formation Chapter 6. Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America, and: Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima, and: Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico (review)

a short time period and, seemingly, with not much resistance? Is the answer sheer brutality? From a very long-term (and different) perspective, the book also recaptures the tortuous past of Florida-Cuba connections. When one looks at the story from today’s perspective, one sees something of a repetitive cycle. As Landers puts it so graciously, ‘‘Immigration has once again made Florida a part of the Afro-Hispanic Caribbean, changing the way it looks and sounds’’ () and, one is tempted to add, has ‘‘classified’’ Cuba once again as a thorn in the side.