Public Lives, Private Secrets
Subtitle: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780804731485
Subjects: American history; Social history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; Latin America; South America; General; History / General; Political
First sentence: It is not often that an author knows where the idea for a book was born, but the incident that precipitated this work occurred on a street in Medellin, Colombia, more than two hundred years ago.