...David Carey, Jr. Abstract In a postcolonial nation convinced that familial peace was a cornerstone to an orderly society, women who committed adultery effectively cuckolded national leaders as well as their husbands. That men risked their reputations by admitting to their wives' extramarital...

... local credit market. This article shows specifically that the analysis of women's participation in economic markets in the nineteenth century must take their marital status into account, as well as the unequal legal position of husbands and wives under the laws of the time, and concludes that marital...

.... The passionate professions in them contrast sharply with the cruel acts of scorned husbands who tied their wives to trees, covered their bodies with ants, hung them from rafters, and ate their ears; some domestic violence ended in murder. Giving credence to his claim that a “culture of impunity...

... medical appointment (whether related to reproductive health or not) to get “the operation” (p. 69). Reluctant husbands can also be intimidated as well. Smith-Oka describes one scene in which a woman came in with her husband and two children for a medical visit. She did not want “the operation” and...

... Enlightenment, Premo argues that we should heed the voices of litigious African and creole slaves in Trujillo (Peru), indigenous women in two districts of Oaxaca (New Spain), and disgruntled married women seeking recompense from brutish husbands in the viceregal capitals. Premo claims that in the rural and...

... of 1804 with respect to the subordinated posi- tion of married women. Various authors argue that the strong infl uence of the French code caused the new republics to retain the concepts of potestad marital (the rights of the husband over the person and property of his wife) and patria potestad...

... husband with few independent ideas of her own, and many questioned whether the ghostwritten text had actually been composed by the First Lady until a facsimile edition in Eva's handwriting resolved the debate. Other aspects of her intensive activities, many independent of her husband, have only recently...

... mortgage it without their husband’s consent. Because of these restrictions, Levy finds, female moneylenders (another line of business favored by Juana Romero) were overwhelmingly widows, who made loans comparable in size (though fewer in number) to those made by male lenders. Female borrowers, in...

... exemplar mother, has never been seen with a man other than her husband. . . . We want to clarify that the drunk Juan Pérez Hernández attempted to rape her . . . and ask that justice be done as we consider [this man] a grave danger to all young girls who...

... behalf. One chapter looks at how Mexican women in Texas and Mexico used American divorce laws to protect family property, to remove unwanted, dissolute, or abusive husbands, and to establish a modicum of autonomy. Moreover, divorce proceedings without church oversight were unavailable in Mexico through...

... homeland, those who followed their husbands to Peru, or those required to raise the mestizo offspring of their own husbands or of other men in Peru and Spain—were principal characters in these stories of transatlantic ties. Finally, the picture is completed with an analysis of the emerging generation of...

... against an ingrained macho culture corresponded with her open warfare against her husband and her resistance to the cultural, political, and ideological machinery he both headed and represented. It is a delicious and insightful premise, which highlights unavoidable aspects, rarely discussed like any...

..., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. “She was well liked and highly respected by her students, faculty colleagues, and many friends.” She is survived by her husband, Michael Masatsugu. Hispanic American Historical Review 90:2 Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 320...

...Judy Bieber Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Betsy Kiddy, a scholar of Brazilian history and the African diaspora in the Americas, died of cancer on September 29, 2014, in her home in Reading, Pennsylvania. She is survived by her husband of 23 years, Gregory Kiddy, her parents...

... transfer of ownership, however, was the nation's Commercial Code, which required married women to provide their husbands' written authorization for any and all commercial endeavors. 2 Carlos Andorim denied his wife permission to participate in the business. It was only when Benedicta appealed to the...

... heightened pathos: “He was handsome, gentle, idealist, rumored to be the illegitimate grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte,” while “she was beautiful, fiercely ambitious, and totally devoted to her husband's cause.” Such pathos is important, because it seems to coincide with McAllen's own stated intention in...

... children in their countries of origin, allow middle-class Spanish women to work outside of the home without having to share domestic and care work equally with their husbands, thus maintaining a patriarchal structure” (p. 243). But if this study depicts the lingering bonds of empire as rather more surly...

.... Bibliography. Index. 214 pp. Paper , $24.00 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This book is a collaboration between Barbara Bulmer-Thomas, a Belizean-born plant taxonomist, and Victor Bulmer-Thomas, her husband and historian of Latin American economic history. Their main goal is to...

... licenciatura level, 4 master’s students, and 8 doc- toral dissertations. She is survived by her husband, Marco Antonio Silva, a philosopher and professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara. maría teresa fernández aceves, CIESAS-Occidente ...

...-written book has much to offer a variety of audiences. Part of a growing body of work on Latin American science and judicial practices, it also brings to life people from many walks of Mexican society, from mothers and midwives to husbands, lovers, employers, and neighbors. By challenging the view of the...