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- The Limits of Gender Domination: Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of New Mexico Press
summary
Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous late colonial and early republican periods in Quito (1765–1830), this study examines women’s legal, economic, and social status in order to gauge the relationship between the increasingly centralized power of the Bourbon kingship and the local operation of social authority. A gendered reading of judicial documents, legal literatures, and institution discourses reveals that Bourbon attempts to restrict women’s access to legal resources were resisted by a traditional local legal culture based on practices of consultation, negotiation, judicial discretion, and contingency. This customary judicial practice, Black argues, played a fundamental role in limiting gender domination and prevented the full realization of a legal, economic, or social patriarchy in colonial Quito.
Table of Contents
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- illustrations and Tables
- pp. ix-xi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xii
- SECTION I: 1765–1809
- pp. 27-28
- 2: Practice I: Sexed Crimes
- pp. 72-120
- SECTION II: 1809–1830
- pp. 163-164
- 6: Practice IV: In the Name of the Law
- pp. 225-262
- Appendix I: Occupations in the Santa B
- pp. 263-264
- Appendix III: Licensure Totals, 1765–1829
- pp. 267-272
- Bibliography
- pp. 329-347
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826349248
Related ISBN(s)
9780826349231
MARC Record
OCLC
759158362
Pages
368
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No