Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I Contact and Conversion: Magellan's legacy; Contact and morals; 'Good' and 'bad' women; Confession and flagellation. Part II Contact and the Baylan: Contact, conversion and the Baylan; Evil (and) old women; Transvestism and the 'third sex/gender' space. Part III Contact and the inquisition: The archbishop, the priest, the holy inquisition and resistance; Holy confrontation: religion and gender in Bolinao; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes on Sources; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Carolyn Brewer teaches in the Division of Arts at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Her research work focuses on the impact of religion on the construction of gender. In 2001, she published Holy Confrontation: Religion, Gender and Sexuality in the Philippines, 1521-1685 Manila, and is co-editor of the award winning electronic journal, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections.