Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America

by Ann Twinam (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $34.89

  Throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, illegitimate offspring of elite families in colonial Spanish America appealed to the Council of the Indies in Spain to purchase legitimations. This analysis provides a detailed picture of attitudes to illegitimacy in colonial Spanish America.