Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru by Irene Marsha Silverblatt

Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru

Irene Marsha Silverblatt

304 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative fast-paced
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When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpireworshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Incaqueens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inc...

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