The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Bueno (Engendering Latin America)

Name: The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Bueno (Engendering Latin America)
ISBN: 9780803293267

by Jeffrey M. Shumway

"In 1840 Gumerscindo Arroyo hoped to marry Francisca Canicoba, but her father forbade it. Consequently, Francisca took her father to court for permission to marry, where he objected on the grounds…