124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Ethereal Bodies: Gender and Religion in Mexico and Guatemala

Ethereal Bodies: Gender and Religion in Mexico and Guatemala

Conference on Latin American History 26

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

America's Cup B (Hyatt)

Chair:

Margaret Chowning, University of California, Berkeley

Papers:

Deviant Spirits, the Unconcious, and Gender in Mexican Spiritism
Lia T. Schraeder, California State University, Bakersfield

Sacramental Power and Sacramental Intimacy: Solicited Women and Their Confessors in Colonial Mexico
Jessica L. Delgado, Smith College

Pious Accounts: Laywomen, Capellanías, and the Gendered Pursuit of Salvation in Guatemala City, 1750–1860
Brianna N. Leavitt-Alcantara, University of California, Berkeley

The Laywomen of the Vela Perpetua: Gender, Religion, and Political Culture in Mexico, 1750–1930
Margaret Chowning, University of California, Berkeley

Comment:

Edward Wright-Rios, Vanderbilt University

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