Abstract:Bárbara Aguirre's divorce case in Chihuahua, Mexico during the 1830s provides a case study of how people of this northern frontier state debated ideas about gender, class, race, and honor in the complex social matrix of calidad. Calidad provided a framework in which Aguirre and her estranged spouse, Francisco Velarde, contested each other's claims before authorities and the larger community of Paso del Norte. In a series of testimonies that comprise some of the most extensive statements by a woman of the Mexic… Show more
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