Private passions and public sins
Subtitle: men and women in seventeenth-century Lima
By: Maria Emma Mannarelli ; translated by Sidney Evans and Meredith D. Dodge.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826322791
Subjects: Adultery -- Peru -- Lima -- History -- 17th century.; Illegitimacy -- Peru -- Lima -- History -- 17th century.; Sexism -- Peru -- Lima -- History -- 17th century.
Work titles: Pecados públicos.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The Spanish invasion and the new patterns of relations between men and women; value: The scene : separation and convergence in seventeenth-century Lima; value: Unwed couples : eating, drinking, and sleeping under the same roof; value: Adultery : sinning against charity and justice; value: Illegitimate children : bonds of love and discharge of conscience; value: Female dishonor and social hierarchies; value: Abandonment, affection, and institutional response.