The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Bueno (Engendering Latin America)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: July 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780803293267
Subjects: Cultural studies; Women's studies; Sociology - Marriage & Family; History; Courts; History - General History; Law; History: World; South America; Gender Studies; Latin America - South America; History / Latin America; History / South America; Social Science : Gender Studies; Social Science : Sociology - Marriage & Family; Buenos Aires; Anecdotes; Argentina; Domestic relations
Description: "In 1840 Gumerscindo Arroyo hoped to marry Francisca Canicoba, but her father forbade it. Consequently, Francisca took her father to court for permission to marry, where he objected on the grounds that Arroyo was simply too ugly."

"In the courtrooms of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, children battled parents in order to fulfill their romantic desires and marry the mate of their choice. Parents and guardians also struggled for custody of young children: some did this out of love, while others were greedy for child labor. In courtrooms and elsewhere, women challenged their traditional status as social and intellectual inferiors. Though all these struggles existed in earlier times, the nineteenth century injected a new dynamic into such conflicts: Argentina's revolution against Spain and the subsequent attempts by political and intellectual leaders to craft a new nation out of the vestiges of Spanish colonialism."--Jacket.