From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780–1854

TitleFrom Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780–1854
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsChambers, Sarah C.
Number of Pages286
PublisherPennsylvania State University Press
CityUniversity Park, PA
Abstract

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. 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.

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