Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias / Nicole von Germeten.
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TextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780826353962Other title: Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, and honor in colonial Cartagena de IndiasSubject(s): Sex -- Colombia -- Cartagena -- History | Violence -- Colombia -- Cartagena -- History | Honor -- Colombia -- Cartagena -- History | Cartagena (Colombia) -- Race relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias.DDC classification: 303.609861 LOC classification: HQ18.C65 | G47 2013Online resources: Click to View Summary: "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 dona 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 dona 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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