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Disappearance of the Dowry : Women, Families, and Social Change in São Paulo, Brazil, 1600-1900 /
Why did a practice that had been considered a duty stop being a duty, or, conversely, why did daughters lose the right they had previously enjoyed of receiving from their parents the wherewithal to contribute to the support of their marriage? Despite the many historical and anthropological studies a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- TABLES AND FIGURES
- NOTE ON CURRENCY
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1600- 1651)
- CHAPTER 1. THE FAMILY AS THE BASIS OF SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 2. THE IMPORTANCE OF DOWRY
- CHAPTER 3. THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN
- PART TWO: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1700-1769)
- CHAPTER 4. TRANSITION IN THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY
- CHAPTER 5. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE PRACTICE OF DOWRY
- CHAPTER 6 A CHANGING MARRIAGE BARGAIN
- PART THREE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800-1869)
- CHAPTER 7. THE GROWTH OF INDIVIDUALISM
- CHAPTER 8. THE SEPARATION OF BUSINESS FROM FAMILY
- CHAPTER 9. DECLINE OF THE DOWRY
- CHAPTER 10. A NEW MARRIAGE BARGAIN
- CHAPTER 11. PROBLEMS WITH THE DOWRY
- CONCLUSION. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE DOWRY
- APPENDIXES
- GLOSSARY
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX