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Excess and Insult in Late-Colonial Guatemala

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia— In 1805, a young woman in Guatemala City went in search of a priest. The woman, Justa Flores, was twenty-one years old; the priest, Father Calderón, was to be the godfather of her five-month-old son.  She found him at a friend’s house, and there Justa was persuaded to stay

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Lest We Forget: Women, Work, and Religion

Sarah Underwood— When I interned at Yale University Press this summer, the other interns and I occasionally joked about how many more young women than men were participating in the program. We knew it was not from a lack of equal opportunity, and I guess we should not have been

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