Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sarah C. Chambers
• Sueann Caulfield
• Lara Putnam

Titel

Private crimes, public order: honor, gender, and the law in early republican Peru

Ist Teil von

• Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America, 2005, p.27

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During the republican revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the political concept of separate spheres became a central concern of philosophers and statesmen.¹ The transition from a monarchy to a republic in Peru similarly heightened the division between public and private, at least in political theory. In practice, however, throughout the nineteenth century, the state extended its regulatory reach into citizens’ everyday lives. Lawyers and judges in early republican Arequipa hotly debated what constituted a “public” crime, and hence one that could be prosecuted directly by the state. This essay will analyze how the negotiation of that legal boundary