Public Lives, Private Secrets Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America

Name: Public Lives, Private Secrets Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America
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ISBN: 9780804731485

ISBN-10: 0804731489

ISBN-13: 9780804731485

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ann Twinam

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Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council and Cámara of the Indies in Spain to purchase gracias al sacar legitimations. Their applications provided intimate testimony concerning their own lives, accounts of their parents’ sexual relationships, and details regarding the impact of illegitimacy within their families and communities. Bourbon officials in Spain debated which petitions merited approval, and in the process forged policies concerning gender, sexuality, illegitimacy, and the family. Scattered throughout the Archive of the Indies, the petitions were difficult to locate until…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English