Sex and standing in the streets of Port Limón, Costa Rica, 1890–1910

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century 1
5. I. LIBERALISM, STATUS, AND CITIZENSHIP
6. Private crimes, public order: honor, gender, and the law in early republican Peru 27
7. Community service, liberal law, and local custom in indigenous villages: Oaxaca, 1750–1850 50
8. The ‘‘spirit’’ of Bolivian laws: citizenship, patriarchy, and infamy 66
9. Interpreting Machado de Assis: paternalism, slavery, and the free womb law 87
10. Slavery, liberalism, and civil law: definitions of status and citizenship in the elaboration of the Brazilian civil code (1855–1916) 109
11. II. POPULAR USES OF THE LAW
12. Trading insults: honor, violence, and the gendered culture of commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s–1950s 131
13. Sex and standing in the streets of Port Limón, Costa Rica, 1890–1910 155
14. Slandering citizens: insults, class, and social legitimacy in Rio de Janeiro’s criminal courts 176
15. Courtroom tales of sex and honor: rapto and rape in late-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico 201
16. The changing politics of freedom and virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920–1940 223
17. III. THE POLICING OF PUBLIC SPACE
18. The plena’s dissonant melodies: leisure, racial policing, and nation in Puerto Rico, 1900–1930s 249
19. Prostitutes and the law: the uses of court cases over pandering in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the twentieth century 273
20. The stigmas of dishonor: criminal records, civil rights, and forensic identification in Rio de Janeiro, 1903–1940 295
21. Contributors 317
22. Index 321