Quito 1765 : justice, rebellion, reform -- Practice I : sexed crimes -- Practice II : women, property, civil dispute -- Quito 1809 : in defense of religion, king, and Patría -- Practice III : in the name of king and constitution -- Practice IV : in the name of the law
Summary
By documenting the progressive removal of limits to patriarchal power in the waning years of the Spanish Empire in Quito, this study traces the genealogy of legal patriarchy in Spanish America