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...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...

... women in the 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...

... continuities and changes in the initial republican codes up through the 1870s. 54 In contrast to the Portuguese civil code, which designated the husband as the legal head ( cabeça do casal ), no explicit reference is made in Hispanic colonial family legislation to the husband as household head. 55...

... Gutiérrez Sánchez, who we have known for a long time, whose life is without reproach, who is [an elected leader] in this Mothers’ Center, and who is an 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...

... exercised the same patriarchal power over sons and daughters as had their husbands, and that wives, though subordinate to their husbands, shared some of those powers, especially when they acted as their husbands’ representatives during the men’s absence on bandeiras. In the first half of the seventeenth...

... de Vargas, vol. 5 (1730), fol. 23v. An amasijo was a place to sell masa, com or wheat dough. In folio 20, there is the record of a woman who managed the smaller of her husband’s two stores. The largest was run by the man’s godchild. See also Will of Doña María Teresa González de Cosío (1729), AS MG...

... quitar a los dichos indios esta costumbre tan nociva y perniciosa a su conversión, policía y cristiandad, haciendo castigos ejemplares. Viceroy Francisco de Toledo B y 1759, Doña María Hincho and her husband, Don Mariano Puma, had been married for about 40 years. More fortunate in a material sense...

... by their husbands. Women's wills reveal their strong sense of personal power over the fate of their enslaved property—whether they would be sold or freed, separated from family or kept together. These documents were often “the only opportunity they had to leave a record of who they were, even when they were...

... involving persons of African descent either the husband or the wife did not have any Negroid blood, and only in 47.8% of the 1,622 marriages were both parties of African descent. It is obvious that the efforts of Spanish officials to encourage persons of African descent to marry within their casta group...

... would benefit from closer juxtapositions. In light of the neighbors, servants, and relatives who stepped in to stop husbands from beating their wives, his assertion that spousal abuse was “socially accepted” begs for more nuance (pp. 126, 144). Did class or ethnicity alter the way that people perceived...

... prayers, potions, and ritual cures to help attract a desirable marital match, tame an abusive husband, distract a possessive partner, or stimulate a lover's generosity. 4 Social histories of American Inquisition trials against witchcraft ( brujería ) show that people suspected of sorcery ( sortilegio...

... of highly coercive practices whereby many women are sterilized or, if they are not, are constantly harangued at every 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...

...). Such a strategy permitted doña Marina to be her “own woman” rather than a “widowed mother” (p. 43) and likely saved doña Luisa—if she had remarried—from “probable silence and powerlessness in the home of a second husband” (p. 63). The author portrays the Estrada women as “navigating the system successfully...

... famous husband Augustus as they carried out archaeological and photographic explorations of places such as Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. The book sandwiches her diary of adventures in Yucatán (1873–76) between more conventional biographies of her earlier and later years. Alice was the youngest daughter...

..., 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 urban...

... of letters addressed to a childhood friend and published them privately to mark her husband’s seventieth birthday. In this bilingual edition, a Spanish translation appears beside the original German text; an introduction by Rolf Walter outlines the development of German business in Maracaibo...

.... The social historian will find much material of interest in this study. Ninety-two percent of the divorce suits were initiated by women, prompted by physical abuse, financial need, adultery or alcoholism of the husband. Only six percent of the cases were carried out to the end. Although divorce cases were...

... to her husband, after the latter’s departure for Great Britain in January 1811. Moreno never received these letters. In them she relates the persecution of Moreno’s followers by the Saavedristas which foreshadowed the long and bitter struggle between the unitarios and the federals. Moreno appears...

.... As the frontier drew fathers, sons, and sons-in-law away to hunt for Indians, to oversee mining claims, to be professional soldiers, or to trade, women remained behind. Some women became skilled managers of the agricultural estate in the absence of their husbands, brothers, and sons. And even for those men who...

... and (later) education to acquire wealth independently from their fathers, the marriage bargain altered until, by the nineteenth century, it was the husband, rather than the wife’s family, who provided practically all the new family’s support. As family and business became formally separate, the family...