Violent Delights, Violent Ends

Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena De Indias

Nicole Von Germeten (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2013
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-5395-5 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Nicole von Germeten is an associate professor of history at Oregon State University, USA. She has published two books and numerous articles on race, religion, and sexuality in colonial Latin America.

Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8263-5395-9 / 0826353959
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-5395-5 / 9780826353955
Zustand	Neuware