Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America

Attempts to reconstruct the elusive and highly personal private lives of colonial Latin Americans. This book presents a collection of essays that analyze a range of issues from sexuality marriage, divorce, and illegitimacy to sexual witch-craft, conceptions of sin, and confession.

About the author

Asunción Lavrin is a professor of history at Arizona State University at Tempe. Her 1995 book, Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940, won the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize from the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies.

Summary

Attempts to reconstruct the elusive and highly personal private lives of colonial Latin Americans. This book presents a collection of essays that analyze a range of issues from sexuality marriage, divorce, and illegitimacy to sexual witch-craft, conceptions of sin, and confession.

Product details

• Authors: Asuncion Lavrin, University of Nebraska Press
• Assisted by: Asuncion Lavrin (Editor), Asunción Lavrin (Editor)
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1992
• EAN: 9780803279407
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7940-7
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: Latin American Studies; Latin American Studies; Latin America studies
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories