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Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues
that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of
their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended
on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand
their authority, wealth, and influence. While the image of
virtuous, secluded, silent, and chaste women did bolster male
authority in general and help to assure individual noblemen that
their children were their own, the presence of active, vocal, and
political women helped these same men move up the social ladder,
guard their property and wealth, gain political influence, win
legal battles, and protect their minor heirs. Drawing on a variety
of documents-guardianships, wills, dowry and marriage contracts,
lawsuits, genealogies, and a few letters-from the family archives
of the nine noble families housed in the Osuna and FrA as
collections in Toledo, Guardianship, Gender and the Nobility in
Early Modern Spain explores the lives and roles of female
guardians. Grace Coolidge examines in detail the legal status of
these women, their role within their families, and their
responsibilities for the children and property in their care. To
Spanish noblemen, Coolidge argues, the preservation of family,
power, and lineage was more important than the prescriptive gender
roles of their time, and faced with the emergency generated by the
premature death of the male title holder, they consistently turned
to the adult women in their families for help. Their need for
support and for allies against their own mortality meant, in turn,
that they expected and trained their female relatives to take an
active part in the economic and political affairs of the family.
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