VIOLENT DELIGHTS VIOLENT ENDS

Von Germeten, Nicole

ISBN 10: 0826353959 / ISBN 13: 9780826353955

Edité par Simon and Schuster, 2013

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• Titre: VIOLENT DELIGHTS VIOLENT ENDS
• Éditeur: Simon and Schuster
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0826353959
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780826353955
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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 legal documents. The stories focus largely on sexual agency and honor: an insult directed at a married woman causes a deadly street battle; a young doña uses sex to manipulate a lustful, corrupt inquisitor. Scandals like these illustrate the central thesis of this book: women in colonial Cartagena de Indias took control of their own sex lives and used sex and rhetoric connected to sexuality to plead their cases when they had to negotiate with colonial bureaucrats.

À propos de l?auteur

Nicole von Germeten is associate professor of history at Oregon State University. Her publications include Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans and, as translator and editor, Alonso de Sandoval's Treatise on Slavery: Selections from De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute.