Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima

by Christine Hunefeldt

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This book tells the story of how ordinary Peruvian men and women experienced their lives and especially their marriages in a patriarchal society and how, through the struggles involved in divorce, women tried to defend their rights and in the process helped bring about change in society more broadly. Careful examination of more than one thousand cases of conjugal suits filed in Lima's archbishopric, as well as wills in notarial records, allowed the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0271019360

ISBN13:9780271019369

Release Date:December 1999

Publisher:Penn State University Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Americas Central America Gender Studies History Latin America Marriage Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Parenting & Relationships Peru Politics & Social Sciences Relationships Social Science Social Sciences Sociology South America Women in History World

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