Fruits of Chastity and Lasciviousness: the Abandoned Children in Recife (1789-1832)

This work investigates the abandonment of children born from chaste and lascivious, blessed and doubtful, relationships in Recife between 1789 and 1832. As live evidence of the moral “weakness” or as a “fruit of misery”, they were abandoned to bad weather conditions and carnivorous animals, left...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alcileide Cabral do Nascimento
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2007-01-01
Series:Revista Estudos Feministas
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/7734