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Women's Lives in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America

Autor Kimberly Gauderman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2003
What did it mean to be a woman in colonial Spanish America? Given the many advances in women's rights since the nineteenth century, we might assume that colonial women had few rights and were fully subordinated to male authority in the family and in society—but we'd be wrong. In this provocative study, Kimberly Gauderman undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in seventeenth-century Quito.
Gauderman draws on records of criminal and civil proceedings, notarial records, and city council records to reveal women's use of legal and extra-legal means to achieve personal and economic goals; their often successful attempts to confront men's physical violence, adultery, lack of financial support, and broken promises of marriage; women's control over property; and their participation in the local, interregional, and international economies. This research clearly demonstrates that authority in colonial society was less hierarchical and more decentralized than the patriarchal model suggests, which gave women substantial control over economic and social resources.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292722231
ISBN-10: 0292722230
Pagini: 195
Ilustrații: 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Kimberly Gauderman is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

Cuprins

  • Preface. Nothing Stays the Same: One City, Two Women
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Putting Women in Their Place
  • Chapter 1. Ambiguous Authority, Contingent Relations: The Nature of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America
  • Chapter 2. Married Women and Property Rights
  • Chapter 3. Women and the Criminal Justice System
  • Chapter 4. Women as Entrepreneurs
  • Chapter 5. Indigenous Market Women
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

Kimberly Gauderman has produced an informative, well-organized study on the lives of Spanish, mestiza, and indigenous women in seventeenth-century Quito.

Gauderman's book is a must-read for anyone interested in gender and the law.

Overall, this book contributes significantly to the field by shedding a great deal of light on the complex terrain in which the women, men, and state officials of colonial Quito negotiated policies and power.  Its careful analysis, rich data, and readability will make it enormously useful in both research pursuits and the classroom.

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In this provocative study, Kimberly Gauderman undermines the long-accepted patriarchal model of colonial society by uncovering the active participation of indigenous, mestiza, and Spanish women of all social classes in many aspects of civil life in sevent