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Author Black, Chad T. (Chad Thomas)

Title The limits of gender domination : women, the law, and political crisis in Quito, 1765-1830 / Chad Thomas Black
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 355 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- Ecuador -- Quito -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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 -- Ecuador -- Quito -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Politics and government
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women -- Social conditions
Women's rights
SUBJECT Quito (Ecuador) -- Politics and government -- 18th century
Quito (Ecuador) -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject Ecuador -- Quito
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010028969
ISBN 9780826349248
0826349242
0826349234
9780826349231
1283637014
9781283637015
6613949477
9786613949479