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In this book, Bárbara Reyes explores what life was like for women in Spanish California. Reyes looks, first, at the creation of the missions in California then moves to analyze three three different women and their experiences from the late 18th century to the early 19th century: an Indian woman accused of murdering a priest, a Spanish woman who accuses her husband of adultery, and a Mestiza woman who became the ''lavera'' or head housekeeper at the San Gabriel Mission.
10. Marisa J. Fuentes, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812248228/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812248228&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=25c6ddbdf5a196012dedefbae558ca8f Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive]'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
In this book, Marisa Fuentes takes us to Bridgetown, Barbados where she takes us through the lives of women--enslaved an free--who would otherwise be invisible in the historical record. Using interdisciplinary methods, pieces together a narrative from fragmentary sources and also looks at the archives themselves and how they mark women's bodies.
