Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904 - Arlene J. Diaz - Bog

Examines the effects that liberalism had on gender relations in the process of state formation in Caracas from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, historian Arlene Diaz shows how the struggle for political power in the modern state reinforced and reproduced patriarchal authority.