Género y justicia en los Comentarios reales

Abstract

This article studies the role of women chosen for the cult of the Sun and textile work during the Inca Empire as described by the Inca Garcilaso, who highlights the distinctive role that these tasks fulfilled in the social order. The weaving of the elite clothes and the moral condition of the “virgins of the Sun” were marks of cultural identity that remained in the memory during the colonial era, so weaving became a potentially subversive practice in the face of the Spanish dominance