Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaBetween options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite
Like their peers in Spain, the women of the colonial elites had three possible destinies to fulfill during their adult lives: to be wives and mothers of families, to become nuns in convents, or to remain unmarried. It is clear that the step towards any of these categories did not depend purely on th...
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2000
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9861 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/29344 |
| Sumario: | Like their peers in Spain, the women of the colonial elites had three possible destinies to fulfill during their adult lives: to be wives and mothers of families, to become nuns in convents, or to remain unmarried. It is clear that the step towards any of these categories did not depend purely on their own will, but in most cases the situation responded to a set of family, economic and social conditions of a conjunctural nature. Marriage was the preferred status for the maidens of the colonial elites; through marriage, families tried to link their daughters at a relatively early age with prosperous members of the same social group, providing them, to the extent of their possibilities, with dowries in goods or money to help with the burdens of marriage. For the elites in general, marriage constituted the fundamental resource to ensure the maintenance, continuity and reproduction of the family, the patrimony and the social prestige achieved by the prominent groups, all conditions of possibility that would be strengthened with the birth of children. |
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