Religious Spaces in the Far East: Women’s Travel and Writing in Manila and Macao

Women’s agency in the early modern period could take on many different forms. In this volume of essays, we encounter the nuances of women’s action and agency through an examination of their unique garb, the items found in their dowries, and their representation in portraits, among other examples. This essay delves into the networks formed by Spanish religious women who traveled from Spain to the Philippines and then to China in the first half of the seventeenth century, another way in which women shaped the world around them. Even by modern-day standards, the verve required to take on such a