Isbn: 9780472064052 - marriage, class and colour in nineteenth-century cuba: a study of racial attitudes and sexual values in a slave society (women and culture series) (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An analysis of marriage patterns in nineteenth-century Cuba, a society with a large black population the majority of which was held in slavery but which also included considerable numbers of freedmen. Dr Martinez-Alier uses as her main source of evidence the records in Havana of administrative and judicial proceedings of cases in which parents opposed a marriage, of cases involving elopement, and of cases of interracial marriage. Dr Martinez-Alier develops a model of the relation between sexual values and social inequality. She considers the importance of the value of virginity in supporting the hierarchy of Cuban society, based on ascription rather than achievement. As a consequence of the high evaluation of virginity, elopement was often a successful means of overcoming parental dissent to an unequal marriage. However, in cases of interracial elopement, the seduced coloured woman had little chance of redress through marriage. In this battle of the sexes and the races, the free coloured women and men played roles and acquired values which explain why matrifocality became characteristic of black free families.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1974/1992. Mesoamerica, Caribbean. University of Michigan Press. 202p., very good paper with sun faded spine. 11/23.

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Zustand: New. Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba challenges conventional ideas about the roots of Cuban race relations. Verena Martinez-Alier proposes a relational model for the study of sexual values and social inequality. Series: Women & Culture S. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295. . 1989. 2nd ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…