Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain
Subtitle: The Peasants of Galicia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 14, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780199265312
First sentence: During the reign of Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE), the Greek geographer Strabo made an astounding assertion about the gender norms of the native peoples of north-western Spain: it is the custom among the Cantabrians for the husbands to give dowries to their wives, for the daughters to be left as heirs, and the brothers to be married off by their sisters.