Prof. DAPHNE V. TAYLOR-GARCÍA is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her article (“The Discursive Construction of "Women" in the Americas: An Analysis of 16th Century Print Culture” ) is available here.
“Pedro Alvares Cabral is also from a wealthy family. He was chosen by the Royal Family to continue Vasco da Gama’s work. […] The description of people in Brazil […] is like arabs, by their color […] they were very sexualized […] girls by the age of 8 would be looking for partners, because they knew they wouldn’t be able to hold a husband without their virginity. […] All descriptions are very sexualized.”
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