TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christiansen,Tanja
TI  - Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862-1900 / 
T2  - Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
SN  - 9780292797413
U1  - 306.098515 22/eng/20230216
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Austin : : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Honor
KW  - Peru
KW  - Cajamarca (Department)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Sexual ethics
KW  - Social control
KW  - Women
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Working class
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - sh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction: Presenting the Case --; 2. Cajamarcan Society under the Magnifying Glass: Regional Society, Economy, and Politics in the Nineteenth Century --; 3. Legislating Gender: The Law, Official Gender Norms, and Notions of Honor --; 4. Survival Strategies: Negotiating Matrimony --; 5. Injurias Verbales y Calumnias: Slander --; 6. Rapto, Seducción, Violación, and Estupro: Moving beyond the Loss of Honor --; 7. Conflict and Cooperation among Women --; 8. Conclusion --; Appendix a Marital and Literacy Data from Criminal Trials, 1862-1900 --; Appendix b Data from the National Census Conducted in 1876 --; Appendix c Cited Trials --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Though the law and courts of nineteenth-century Peru were institutions created by and for the ruling elite, women of all classes used the system to negotiate the complexities of property rights, childrearing, and marriage, and often to defend their very definitions of honor. Drawing on the trial transcripts of Cajamarca, a northern Peruvian province, from more than a century ago, this book shares eye-opening details about life among this community, in which reputation could determine a woman's chances of survival. Exploring the processes of courtship, seduction, and familial duties revealed in these court records, historian Tanja Christiansen has unearthed a compelling panorama that includes marital strife, slander, disobedience, street brawls, and spousal abuse alongside documents that give evidence of affection and devotion. Her research also yields much new information about the protocols for conflict and cooperation among nineteenth-century Peruvian women from all social strata, and the prevalence of informal unions in an economy driven in large part by migratory male labor. Reviving a little-known aspect of Latin American history, Christiansen's book simultaneously brings to light an important microcosm of women's history during the nineteenth century
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/702882
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292797413
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292797413/original
ER  -