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Exploring the crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, this book reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respectability - prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other deviants who provoked the concern of a growing central government linked closely to the church.

(Paperback)

Stepping beyond traditional histories that have emphasized armed conflict from the view of victors, this work focuses on Morisco women. It argues that these women's lives offer insights on the experiences of Moriscos in general, and on how the politics of religion both empowers and oppresses.