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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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2000
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| description | 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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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO293442022-03-16T19:07:50Z Between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite Entre opciones, límites y obligaciones: una viuda de la elite riojana colonial Boixadós, Roxana 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. Al igual que sus semejantes en España, las mujeres de las elites coloniales tenían tres posibles destinos para cumplir durante su vida adulta: ser esposas y madres de familia, ingresar como monjas en conventos, o bien permanecer encondición de soltería. Es claro que el paso hacia cualquiera de estas categorías no dependía puramente de su propia voluntad, sino que en la mayoría de los casos la situación respondía a un conjunto de condicionamientos familiares, económicos y sociales de carácter coyuntural. El matrimonio era el estado preferencial para las doncellas de las elites coloniales; a través del casamiento las familias intentaban vincular a sus hijas a edades relativamente tempranas con miembros prósperos del mismo grupo social proveyéndolas, en la medida de sus posibilidades, de dotes en bienes o dinero para ayudar a las cargas del matrimonio. El casamiento constituyó en las elites en general el recurso fundamental para asegurar el mantenimiento, la continuidad y reproducción de la familia, del patrimonio y del prestigio social alcanzado por los grupos prominentes, todas condiciones de posibilidad que se afianzarían con el nacimiento de los hijos. 2000-11-01 2022-03-16T19:07:50Z 2022-03-16T19:07:50Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9861 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/29344 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9861/10545 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9861/31214 Derechos de autor 2000 Cuadernos de historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf text/html Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad; Núm. 3 (2000); 27-47 2422-7544 1514-5816 |
| spellingShingle | Boixadós, Roxana Between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite |
| title | Between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite |
| title_full | Between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite |
| title_fullStr | Between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite |
| title_short | Between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial Riojan elite |
| title_sort | between options, limits and obligations: a widow of the colonial riojan elite |
| url | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9861 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/29344 |