HIS205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intrepidity, Concubinage, Matrilineality
4 Apr 2016
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Especially as producers: produced clothes for slaves. Also as consumers owning sugar, tea, chocolate all became markers of social status. Investors they invested in trading companies and received profits in return: women in the colonies. Wives, cocubines some women were forced to leave. Women played vital role in colonization process and establishing culture the more european women present, the more europeanized a colonial society was notions of gender were spread to non european places led to creation of hybrid forms. Colonization led to creation of mixed institutions and populations: groups: military, missionary, merchants male heavy. Mixed cultures religion family patterns cultural traditions indigenous women that colonizers had relationships with influenced colonizers some raised children according to local customs going native . Virgin lands that needed men like themselves to make them fruitful indigenous people were feminized or hyper sexualized: european women in the colonies, adventurers very few women.
