Keywords
husband murderess
colony woman
Virgin Mary ideal of femininity
physical mistreatment
female transgression
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Abstract
This article analyzes some cases of husband´s murderess by “neogranadinas” wives in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada, between 1780 and 1830. It is about trials raised upon second instance appeals, in which wives declarated that the have committed the crime in self defense and also because they were tired of the systematic physical mistreatment they were given by their husbands. The text arguments that in Nueva Granada the Virgin Mary ideal of femininity was not accomplished in those social groups where wives labored or enjoyed some sort of economic independence from their husbands. This fact implied a change in how domestic power relationships were shaped, and that impelled women not to be tolerant with punishment.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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