La mujer peninsular en Nueva España: migración y asentamiento en el Nuevo Mundo

Resumen

During the sixteenth century the expansion of the known world opened a new scenario of improvement and opportunities for change for the inhabitants of the Peninsula. The attraction to the New World provoked a major migration movement to those territories that reached its maximum consolidated peak processes of conquest and colonization. The woman participated in this transit to the Indies with an unusual prominence, as she aspired in this new reality to a favorable scenario for the development of her autonomy and freedom of action. This work is intended to be a transverse research that analyses women's participation in transoceanic travel and assesses their scope in the processes of construction and consolidation of new societies.