Transforming Gender Roles İn The Colonial Andes Native Andean Female Resistance To Colonial Spanish Constructs Of Gender Hierarchy

Abstract

This research is intended as a gendered investigation into the native Andean woman’s experience under Spanish colonialism. This gendered colonial perspective is aimed at analyzing the ways in which resistance efforts undertaken by native Andean women in response to colonial gender hierarchies contributed to the greater cultural preservation efforts of the Andean people. While this region certainly includes native women of the conquered Inca Empire, particularly those in Peru and Bolivia, it is by no means exclusive to this civilization. Native women of diverse ethnic and cultural groups in the Andes, some of which remained unincorporated by the Inca at the time of the Spanish conquest, will also be included, as their colonial experiences are equally valuable to a cohesive understanding of women’s roles under the Spanish empire.