In this Book
- Nem teúdas, nem manteúdas: História das Mulheres e Direito na capitania da Paraíba (Brasil, 1661–1822)
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

summary
This book develops a legal history of colonial women as a methodological approach to studying the women of Paraíba, a captaincy on the northeast coast of Brazil, from the end of the Dutch occupation (1661) to Brazilian independence in 1822. It uses the concept of multiple normativities to analyse dozens of daily life cases from Portuguese and Brazilian archives.
To study women’s everyday normative contexts in a colonial space, the author analyses traditional Ius Commune and Portuguese legal sources from different jurisdictions, but also legal doctrines, medical treatises, moralist works and literature to enrich interpretations in women’s history, gender studies, feminist legal theory and legal history. Furthermore, she examines the impact of these normative traditions in the colonial Captaincy of Paraíba and focuses on normativities of a more pragmatic character, analysing archival documents portraying women’s daily life situations relating to both secular and religious jurisdictions.
The analysis demonstrates that the law from the metropole neither offered pre-established solutions for women’s daily lives, nor was it applied
unchanged in the colony. On the ground, law was dynamic, and the interplay of multiple normativities provided different possibilities that depended on
the intersection of women’s condition and status, religion and sexual options, proving that sex and gender categories are not immutable, but, on the
contrary, flexible according to the practices of law in colonial Paraíba.
Table of Contents

- Agradecimentos
- pp. ix-xiv
- Capítulo 3: Promessas frustradas
- pp. 193-210
- Capítulo 4: As experiências da maternidade
- pp. 211-230
- Capítulo 7: Desfazendo um vínculo eterno?
- pp. 295-304
- Conclusões
- pp. 337-350
- Fontes e bibliografia
- pp. 351-376
- About the Author
- pp. 375-376
- Backmatter
- pp. 377-381
Additional Information
ISBN
9783944773285
Related ISBN(s)
9783944773292
MARC Record
OCLC
1245423147
Pages
396
Launched on MUSE
2021-04-08
Language
Portuguese
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY