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The limits of gender domination [electronic resource] : women, the law, and political crisis in Quito, 1765-1830 / Chad Thomas Black.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Chad T. (Chad Thomas)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Ecuador--Quito--Social conditions--18th century.
- Women.
- Women--Ecuador--Quito--Social conditions--19th century.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Ecuador--Quito--History--18th century.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Ecuador--Quito--History--19th century.
- Women's rights--Ecuador--Quito--History--18th century.
- Women's rights.
- Women's rights--Ecuador--Quito--History--19th century.
- Quito (Ecuador)--Politics and government--18th century.
- Quito (Ecuador).
- Quito (Ecuador)--Politics and government--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By documenting the progressive removal of limits to patriarchal power in the waning years of the Spanish Empire in Quito, this study traces the genealogy of legal patriarchy in Spanish America.
- Contents:
- Quito 1765 : justice, rebellion, reform
- Practice I : sexed crimes
- Practice II : women, property, civil dispute
- Quito 1809 : in defense of religion, king, and Patría
- Practice III : in the name of king and constitution
- Practice IV : in the name of the law.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-63701-4
- 0-8263-4924-2
- OCLC:
- 817819500
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