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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Twinam, Ann, 1946- Public lives, private secrets. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)1311565839 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ann Twinam |
ISBN: | 0804731470 9780804731478 0804731489 9780804731485 |
OCLC Number: | 39982050 |
Description: | xiii, 447 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part I. Introduction : -- 1. Antecedents -- 2. Precedents: sexuality and illegitimacy, discrimination, civil legitimation -- Part II. Life Course : -- 3. Mothers: pregnant virgins, abandoned women and the private and public price of sexuality -- 4. Fathers: life course and sexuality -- 5. Babies and illegitimacy: the politics of recognition from the font to the grave -- 6. Children: growing up illegitimate -- 7. Adults: passing, turning-point moments, and the quest for honor -- 8. Adults: the quest for family property -- Part III. The State's Response : -- 9. Royal officials: prelude (1717-1760) and early policy formation (1761-1775) -- 10. Bourbon reformers: the activist càmara 1776-1793 -- 11. Reform and retreat: Bourbon social policies after 1794 -- Part IV. Aftermaths : -- 12. The legitimated: life after Gracias al Sacar -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Ann Twinam. |
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"Beautifully written, capaciously documented, and compellingly argued, this book contributes enormously to the colonial Spanish-American historiography on race, social status, and culture, as well as on how these themes were played out in daily life as concerns for honor, gender, and sexuality." -- Ramon Gutierrez * University of California, San Diego * "Fresh, well written, thoroughly documented, and extraordinarily informative, this outstanding social history is one of the most important works in colonial Spanish American history published in the 1990s." -- <I>Choice</I> "Twinam's book reflects mature scholarship developed over several decades of research and reflection . . . and is a good example of how social history can be done. . . . She has produced a book that illuminates very important aspects of Spanish American social history and late-18th-century Bourbon policy." -- <I>Journal of Social History</I> "Twinam has carefully reconstructed the world of the local elite, while providing a nuanced and detailed analysis of the social and economic costs of illegitimacy." -- <I>Colonial Latin American Review</I> Read more...

