ABSTRACT
The Spanish conquest of the Incas transformed the terrain of living, the shape of possibilities, of those who lived in the Peruvian Andes. And while the Spanish made the Inca empire into a colony through institutions of faith, power, and economy, they did so in gendered fashion. For gender ideologies — the broadly construed meanings implicated in the making of women and men — were intrinsic to the process of colony-building. Structures of colonial order were profoundly marked by gender, as were the thrusts of Andean resistance to them.
