From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854 Contributor(s): Chambers, Sarah C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0271019018 ISBN-13: 9780271019017 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $94.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2000 Annotation: This study of a Peruvian city begins with chapters which trace patterns of change within successive building blocks of Arequipa's political culture, looking at its development as a region, identities based on race and class, social networks and rituals at the level of community, efforts at social control, and the transformation in meanings of honor. Later chapters focus primarily on the period after independence, exploring the limits of citizenship and the construction of Arequipa's republican political culture. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Latin America - South America - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 306.209 |
LCCN: 98-37144 |
Lexile Measure: 1300 |
Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.22" W x 9.2" (1.28 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Offering a corrective to previous views of Spanish-American independence, this book shows how political culture in Peru was dramatically transformed in this period of transition and how the popular classes as well as elites played crucial roles in this process. Honor, underpinning the legitimacy of Spanish rule and a social hierarchy based on race and class during the colonial era, came to be an important source of resistance by ordinary citizens to repressive action by republican authorities fearful of disorder. Claiming the protection of their civil liberties as guaranteed by the constitution, these honorable citizens cited their hard work and respectable conduct in justification of their rights, in this way contributing to the shaping of republican discourse. Prominent politicians from Arequipa, familiar with these arguments made in courtrooms where they served as jurists, promoted at the national level a form of liberalism that emphasized not only discipline but also individual liberties and praise for the honest working man. But the protection of men's public reputations and their patriarchal authority, the author argues, came at the expense of women, who suffered further oppression from increasing public scrutiny of their sexual behavior through the definition of female virtue as private morality, which also justified their exclusion from politics. The advent of political liberalism was thus not associated with greater freedom, social or political, for women. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chambers, Sarah C.: - Sarah C. Chambers is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. |