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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Jeffrey M. Shumway. The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776–1870. (Engendering Latin America.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2005. Pp. x, 200. $29.95.

In 1776, as colonies on the North American seacoast declared independence from their British rulers, the reverse was taking place at the other end of the Atlantic basin: the Spanish crown established a new viceroyalty with Buenos Aires as its capital. That same year, the Spanish monarch issued a new law on marriage that was extended to the American colonies two years later. The legislation granted parents the right to prevent the matrimony of their progeny to partners of inferior social status. It also entitled the offspring to challenge parental opposition in civil court. Jeffrey M. Shumway's book draws its title from one of these cases, in which a father objected to his daughter's suitor on the basis of—among other complaints—his physical appearance.

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