"Deviant and Useful Citizens" explores the conditions of women and
perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout
the Viceroyalty of Peru, which until 1776 comprised modern-day
Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. Mariselle
Melendez introduces the reader to a female rebel, Micaela Bastidas,
whose brutal punishment became a particularly harsh example of
state response to women who challenged the system. She explores the
cultural representation of women depicted as economically
productive and vital to the health of the culture at large. The
role of women in religious orders provides still another window
into the vital need to sustain the image of women as loyal and
devout -- and to deal with women who refused to comply.
The book focuses on the different ways male authorities, as well as
female subjects, conceived the female body as deeply connected to
notions of what constituted a useful or deviant citizen within the
Viceroyalty. Using eighteenth-century legal documents, illustrated
chronicles, religious texts, and newspapers, Mariselle Melendez
explores in depth the representation of the female body in periods
of political, economic, and religious crisis to determine how it
was conceived within certain contexts.
"Deviant and Useful Citizens" presents a highly complex society
that relied on representations of utility and productivity to
understand the female body, as it reveals the surprisingly large
stake that colonial authorities had in defining the status of women
during a crucial time in South American history.
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