Jessica O'Leary
Biographic Data
| ID | 4627646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica O'Leary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Leary |
| SIGNATURE | LEARY J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4260-522X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
With Delight and Desire
This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond. Although we cannot access the emotional experiences of these women, their representation and description, of…
Special Issue “Gender and Emotion in Early Japanese Christianity” – Introduction
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue ‘Women’s and Gender History in the Iberian Worlds: Global Knowledge Production’ argues that recovering women’s experiences of Iberian empires requires three interconnected methodological shifts. First, we must confront archival silences not as absences but as active productions of patriarchal and imperial power, requiring sensitive analysis that moves beyond traditional sources. Second, we advocate for a glo…
Don't call it magic
This article examines the lives of Mónica and Íria, two Indigenous women who navigated Portuguese colonial society and the Inquisition. Despite limited records, their stories offer insights into how women preserved, transmitted, and defended Indigenous knowledges in colonial settings in West Africa and Brazil. Mónica and Íria’s actions, from seeking Indigenous healers to participating in native spiritual practices, reveal the agency they exercise…
Governadoras
In sixteenth-century Brazil, several European women governed the captaincies of their late or absent husbands during the first century of Portuguese colonization. A contextual and lexical analysis of the male-authored sources reveals that these women acted decisively to protect and expand familial patrimonies and, in doing so, were part of the colonizing movement. Although extensive written evidence survives that attests to their authority and ag…
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women's Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500-1650
In the land now known as Brazil, Indigenous women were responsible for cultivating and preparing a tuberous root called mandioca (cassava). Following the arrival of Europeans in 1500, mandioca replaced wheat bread to become the staple carbohydrate in settlers' diets. Travellers' accounts between 1500 and 1550 describe how Indigenous women taught settlers to prepare the tubers for consumption through the use of special tools and processes of soaki…
Luís Fróis, Gendered Knowledge, and the Jesuit Encounter with Sixteenth-Century Japan
This article argues that our understanding of the sixteenth-century Jesuit encounter with Japan is improved by taking into account the role gender played in cultural translation. Recent histories of the mission and the writings it produced have highlighted the strategies adopted by Jesuits to rely on and manipulate knowledge of local cultures to facilitate conversion. Yet, few scholars have used gender as a lens to read the actions and ethnograph…
The Lettres Portugaises
This article builds on previous literary scholarship to analyse the social and publication history of the enormously successful Lettres portugaises (1669), five letters published in the voice of an anonymous Portuguese nun to a French officer. Although the letters were based on an ancient model, this article suggests that their references to contemporary gendered constructions of biology and love, especially for enclosed women, were successfully …
Scrivere lettere nel Cinquecento
Scrivere lettere nel Cinquecento: Corrispondenze in prosa e in versi. Laura Fortini, Giuseppe Izzi, and Concetta Ranieri, eds. Biblioteca dell’Arcadia: Studi e testi 3. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2016. xiii + 294 pp. €38. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Politics, Pedagogy, and Praise
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Politics, Pedagogy, and Praise
Scrivere lettere nel Cinquecento
Scrivere lettere nel Cinquecento: Corrispondenze in prosa e in versi. Laura Fortini, Giuseppe Izzi, and Concetta Ranieri, eds. Biblioteca dell’Arcadia: Studi e testi 3. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2016. xiii + 294 pp. €38. - Volume 71 Issue 1
The Lettres Portugaises
This article builds on previous literary scholarship to analyse the social and publication history of the enormously successful Lettres portugaises (1669), five letters published in the voice of an anonymous Portuguese nun to a French officer. Although the letters were based on an ancient model, this article suggests that their references to contemporary gendered constructions of biology and love, especially for enclosed women, were successfully …
Luís Fróis, Gendered Knowledge, and the Jesuit Encounter with Sixteenth-Century Japan
This article argues that our understanding of the sixteenth-century Jesuit encounter with Japan is improved by taking into account the role gender played in cultural translation. Recent histories of the mission and the writings it produced have highlighted the strategies adopted by Jesuits to rely on and manipulate knowledge of local cultures to facilitate conversion. Yet, few scholars have used gender as a lens to read the actions and ethnograph…
Governadoras
In sixteenth-century Brazil, several European women governed the captaincies of their late or absent husbands during the first century of Portuguese colonization. A contextual and lexical analysis of the male-authored sources reveals that these women acted decisively to protect and expand familial patrimonies and, in doing so, were part of the colonizing movement. Although extensive written evidence survives that attests to their authority and ag…
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women's Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500-1650
In the land now known as Brazil, Indigenous women were responsible for cultivating and preparing a tuberous root called mandioca (cassava). Following the arrival of Europeans in 1500, mandioca replaced wheat bread to become the staple carbohydrate in settlers' diets. Travellers' accounts between 1500 and 1550 describe how Indigenous women taught settlers to prepare the tubers for consumption through the use of special tools and processes of soaki…
With Delight and Desire
This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond. Although we cannot access the emotional experiences of these women, their representation and description, of…
Special Issue “Gender and Emotion in Early Japanese Christianity” – Introduction
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue ‘Women’s and Gender History in the Iberian Worlds: Global Knowledge Production’ argues that recovering women’s experiences of Iberian empires requires three interconnected methodological shifts. First, we must confront archival silences not as absences but as active productions of patriarchal and imperial power, requiring sensitive analysis that moves beyond traditional sources. Second, we advocate for a glo…
Don't call it magic
This article examines the lives of Mónica and Íria, two Indigenous women who navigated Portuguese colonial society and the Inquisition. Despite limited records, their stories offer insights into how women preserved, transmitted, and defended Indigenous knowledges in colonial settings in West Africa and Brazil. Mónica and Íria’s actions, from seeking Indigenous healers to participating in native spiritual practices, reveal the agency they exercise…
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