Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima

by Christine Hunefeldt

Book Overview

This book tells the story of how ordinary Peruvian men and women experienced their lives and especially their marriages in a patriarchal society and how, through the struggles involved in divorce, women tried to defend their rights and in the process helped bring about change in society more broadly. Careful examination of more than one thousand cases of conjugal suits filed in Lima's archbishopric, as well as wills in notarial records, allowed the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019360
• ISBN13: 9780271019369
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"