Seduction, Sexual Aggression and the Defense of Feminine Honor in the Basque Provinces, 16th-18th Centuries

BARAHONA ARÉVALO, Renato

Publication year:

2006

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

978-84-8419-046-2

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

This assay examines seduction, sexual aggression and the defence of feminine honour in Bizkaia; the author explorers how the reputations of women were affected after being mocked at an abandoned; also, this work delves on how the victims of sexual crimes used to recur to the courts to remedy their dishonour and recover their good reputation and state.