Saturday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

114. Gender Ideology, Sexual Violence, and the History of Non-Elite Women's Private and Public Options in Latin America

Palmer House, LaSalle Room 1

Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History and the Coordinating Council for Women in History

Chair: Elizabeth Kuznesof, University of Kansas

Papers: The Scripts of Violence: Symbolism and Language in Everyday Conflicts: Mexico 1750–1856
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University

Runaway Daughters: Young Women's Roles in Rapto Cases in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Kathy Sloan, University of Kansas

Courtroom Tales of Violence, Sex, and Honor: Rapto and Rape in Late Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Eileen Findlay, American University

"Una boa moca": Changing Definitions of Female Honor in Brazil, 1730–1930
Elizabeth Kuznesof

Comment: Christine Hunefeldt, University of California at San Diego

   

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