Violent delights, violent ends : : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias / / Nicole von Germeten.
"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...
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Germeten, Nicole von. Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias / Nicole von Germeten. Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, and honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013. 1 online resource (318 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Sex Colombia Cartagena History. Violence Colombia Cartagena History. Honor Colombia Cartagena History. Cartagena (Colombia) Race relations History. Electronic books. Print version: Germeten, Nicole von. Violent delights, violent ends : sex, race, & honor in colonial Cartagena de Indias. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013 xi, 304 pages 9780826353955 (DLC) 2013019963 ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=1378778 Click to View |
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