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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Asuncion Lavrin, University of Nebraska Press
• Con la collaborazione di: Asuncion Lavrin (Editore), Asunción Lavrin (Editore)
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.1992
• EAN: 9780803279407
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7940-7
• Pagine: 350
• Dimensioni: 139 mm x 215 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 417 g
• Serie: Latin American Studies; Latin American Studies; Latin America studies
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Vita di coppia, sessualità; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni