This book studies the women of colonial Paraíba, a captaincy in northeastern Brazil. Based on daily life cases from archives in Portugal and Brazil, it shows that the law of the metropole was not simply transplanted to the colony. Instead, it interacted with local normativities, providing options to women depending on the intersection of their status and condition, religion and sexuality. The study demonstrates the flexibility of sex and gender categories according to the practice of law.weiterlesen