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& Sexuality Marriage in Colonial Latin America Editedby Asuncion Lavrin Latin American Studies Series SeriesEditorsMichaelC.Meyer JohnD. Martz MiguelLeon-Portilla Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America Edited by Asuncion Lavrin University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London — —— , "DivorceinColonialBrazil: The CaseofSaoPaulo"has previouslybeenpublished, in differentform, aschapter8in Sistema decasamentonoBrasil colonial byMariaBeatrizNizza daSilva(SaoPaulo: T.A. Queiroz/EDUSP, 1984): 210-43, andisusedbypermissionof T.A.Queiroz. Copyright © 1989 by theUniversityofNebraskaPress Allrightsreserved ManufacturedintheUnited StatesofAmerica Thepaperinthisbookmeetsthe minimumrequirementsof AmericanNationalStandardfor Information Sciences PermanenceofPaperforPrinted LibraryMaterials, ANSIZ39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging inPublicationData Sexualityandmarriagein colonialLatinAmerica. Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. — 1. Marriage LatinAmerica History. 2. Sexcustoms — LatinAmerica History. — — 3. LatinAmerica History To 1830. I. Lavrin,Asuncion. HQ560.5.S48 1989 306.8T098 88-33980 ISBN0-8032-2885-6(alk.paper) , Contents Preface, vii RUTH BEHAR ListofAbbreviations, ix Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, andWomen's ASUNCIONLAVRIN Powers: Viewsfrom the Introduction: The Scenario, MexicanInquisition, 178 theActors, andtheIssues, 1 Marriage Sexuality SUSANM. SOCOLOW ASUNCIONLAVRIN Acceptable Partners: Marriage Sexuality in Colonial Mexico: AChurch Choicein ColonialArgentina, 1778-1810,209 Dilemma, 47 RICHARD BOYER SERGE GRUZINSKI Women, LaMala Vida and the IndividualizationandAc- PoliticsofMarriage, 252 culturation: Confession amongtheNahuasofMexi- THOMAS CALVO cofromthe Sixteenthtothe TheWarmth oftheHearth: EighteenthCentury, 96 Seventeenth-Century GuadalajaraFamilies, 287 ANNTWINAM Honor, Sexuality, and MARIABEATRIZ NIZZADASILVA Illegitimacyin Colonial Divorcein ColonialBrazil: The SpanishAmerica, 118 CaseofSaoPaulo, 313 KATHYWALDRON ListofContributors,341 The SinnersandtheBishop Index, 343 inColonialVenezuela: The Visita ofBishopMariano Marti, 1771-1784, 156 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2015 in https://archive.org/details/sexualitymarriagOOIavr Preface In June 1984 Dick Boyer, Ann Twinam, and I decided to gather the three papers we had just delivered at the Berkshire Conference on Women's Historyandattempt toputabooktogetheron the subject ofsexualityandmarriagein colonialLatinAmerica. Itookoverthe steering role. Searching for contributions took almost two more years; despiteitsintrinsicinterest, thetopichadnotbeenstudiedin depthbymanyhistorians. Ibelievethat theeffortsspentinlocating the contributors to this book have been amply rewarded. We have now a set ofcarefullyresearched and thought-provokingstudies on the interaction of the genders in the colonial period. The process thatboundmenandwomeninpersonalrelationshipsbeforethefor- mation of the family, and the social and religious mechanisms that attemptedtoregulatethem, areexaminedherefromavarietyofan- gles, revealing the intensely human nature of the subject. This is a book about men and women, their loves and hatreds, their inhibi- tions, theirprejudices, theirfearsandtheirjoys in theprocess ofre- latingtoeachother.Ihopethatthereaderwillfindmuchherethatis new but also much that strikes a cord of familiarity with our own contemporaryworld. I also trust that the publication of this collec- tion will serve as an incentive to other historians to explore the manynuances andchallengingcomplexitiesofthesubject. All of us are indebted to many people and institutions for their supportandencouragement, andtheyhavebeenrememberedinthe acknowledgmentsforeachpaper. Here Iwish toexpress myspecial gratitude to William L. Sherman and Silvia Arrom for their critical comments.ThestaffofTheHispanicDivisionoftheLibraryofCon- gress and the Handbook ofLatin American Studies deserve a very special mention. Theyhave gone beyond beingcooperative and pa-
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