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Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904

Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904

Diaz, Arlene J.

Paperback

Series: Engendering Latin America, Book 7

General Latin American HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0803266405
ISBN13: 9780803266407
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Apr 1 2004
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela examines the effects that liberalism had on gender relations in the process of state formation in Caracas from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century.

The 1811 Venezuelan constitution granted everyone in the abstract, including women, the right to be citizens and equals, but at the same time permitted the continued use of older Spanish civil laws that accorded women inferior status and granted greater authority to male heads of households. Invoking citizenship for their own protection and that of their loved ones, some women went to court to claim the same civil liberties and protections granted to male citizens. In the late eighteenth century, colonial courts dispensed some protection to women in their conflicts with men; a century later, however, patriarchal prerogatives were reaffirmed in court sentences. Discouraging as this setback was, the actions of the women who had fought these legal battles raised an awareness of the discrepancies between the law and women's daily lives, laying the groundwork for Venezuelan women's organizations in the twentieth century.

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