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An 8 page research paper. The colonial period in Latin America encompasses roughly four hundred years. During that time the role and status of women evolved and changed, according to the economic and sociopolitical atmosphere of the era and the region. The following examination of the role of women in Latin America focuses on what four texts reveal about this topic. The authors focus on different regions and address this topic from different perspectives, which serve to illuminate understanding of women's role during the Latin American colonial period. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to the economic and sociopolitical atmosphere of the era and the region. The following examination of the role of women in Latin America focuses on what four texts reveal about
this topic. The authors focus on different regions and address this topic from different perspectives, which serve to illuminate understanding of womens role during the Latin American colonial period. Before
discussing these texts collectively, it is helpful to get an overall view of their arguments. The Dowry and Social Change There are numerous ways of tracing the evolution of social
change in regards to the status and role of women in Latin America. One way is demonstrated by Muriel Nazarri, which traces the custom of the dowry over the course
of four hundred years of history in city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nazarri argues that the decline and disappearance of the dowry in Brazil reflected the overall social changes
that were going on at during this time. Over the course of these centuries, Brazil changed from a "hierarchical, ancient regime type of society," which was "vertically" oriented into "family
clans," into a society that that was "divided horizontally into classes" (Nazarri xix). Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, a new concept of private property took hold in Brazilian society.
Because of this, the family changed from being the focus of both production and consumption toward a paradigm in which it was simply the focus of consumption, causing the concepts
of "family" and "business" to become separate (Nazarri xix). This evolution did not necessarily increase the status or role of women in Latin American society, as it meant the
decline of the custom of dowry, which ensured that a woman came to a marriage as an economic equal. A woman often brought economic assets considerably larger than those of
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