The Limits of Gender Domination: Women, The Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830

by Black, Chad Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780826349231
• ISBN10: 0826349234
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous late-colonial and early-republican periods in Quito (1765-1830), this study examines women's legal, economic, and social status in order to gauge the relationship between the increasingly centralized power of the Bourbon kingship and the local operation of social authority. The customary judicial practice, Black argues, played a fundamental role in limiting gender domination and prevented the full realization of a legal, economic, or social patriarchy in colonial Quito, Ecuador.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
1765-1809	p. 27
Quito 1765: Justice, Rebellion, Reform	p. 29
Practice I: Sexed Crimes	p. 72
Practice II: Women, Property, Civil Dispute	p. 121
1809-1830	p. 163
Quito 1809: In Defense of Religion, King, and Patría	p. 165
Practice III: In the Name of King and Constitution	p. 202
Practice IV: In the Name of the Law	p. 225
Occupations in the Santa Bárbara Padrón, 1768	p. 263
List of Adulterous Couples from the Pueblo of Chillogallo, 1790	p. 265
Licensure Totals, 1765-1829	p. 267
Notes	p. 273
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 348
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