Violent Delights, Violent Ends Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

Name: Violent Delights, Violent Ends Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de Indias
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ISBN: 9780826353955

ISBN-10: 0826353959

ISBN-13: 9780826353955

Edition: 2013

Authors: Nicole von Germeten

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This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city. Cartagena was an important Spanish port and the site of an Inquisition high court, a slave market, a leper colony, a military base, and a prison colony--colonial institutions that imposed order by enforcing Catholicism, cultural and religious boundaries, and prevailing race and gender hierarchies. The city was also simmering with illegal activity, from contraband trade to prostitution to heretical religious practices. Nicole von Germeten's research uncovers scandalous stories drawn from archival research in Inquisition cases, criminal records, wills, and other…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.03" wide x 8.98" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Debatable Virginity: Doï¿½a Marï¿½a de Montemayor



Love Magic and a Married Woman: Doï¿½a Lorenzana de Acereto



Violence, Sex, and Honor



Irish Honor on the Spanish Main: Captain Cornelio Cornelius



Marriage, Sex, Love, and Politics



Cartagena's Most Notorious Sorceress: Paula de Eguiluz



Sorcery, Sex, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Cartagena



Sex, Dress, and the Inquisition



Violence, Honor, and Sex for Sale: Doï¿½a Manuela de Andrade



Sex, Love, and Marriage in the Eighteenth Century



Sex, Scandal, and the Military: Doï¿½a Luisa Llerena


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index