The Church and women in New Spain: convents, beaterios and recollections

Novohispanic women's convents were centers of piety and economic power, but also spaces of enclosure and moral control: onerous dowries, internal factions, guarded parlors and houses of seclusion reveal the less idealized face of the female religious world.See the complete article here:https://www.xikoova.com/en/the-church-and-women-in-new-spain-convents-beaterios-and-recollections/