CATEGORIZING WOMEN The legal doctrines of colonial Latin America categorized certain people as de...

her underclothes. She questioned her daughter about the stains, and Luisa Francisca responded by ...

PUBLIC SPACES AND GENDER The Mediterranean honor code also imparted values to different spaces th...

attacks also occurred in the cities, when women and girls were dragged into abandoned houses or d...

whether at these hours she was out whoring The pair legal defender doubted doña María account an...

Although ecclesiastical authorities urged men to treat their wives as companions, many women comp...