Nora E Jaffary
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 580556 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nora E Jaffary |
| NOMBRES | Nora E |
| APELLIDO | Jaffary |
| FIRMA | JAFFARY N E |
| AFILIACIONES | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8775-0722 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Infanticide in the Americas? An Introductory Essay
The introduction to the special issue explains the significance of studying infanticide in the frame of the Americas and outlines some of the important themes and findings that emerge from the papers. The introduction explores how authors have uncovered a range of reactions to infanticide, how social and emotional contexts matter in cases of suspicious infant deaths, and how and why sexual honor and shame mitigated social and criminal sanctions. …
Bureaucratic Ambitions and Indigenous Defendants in Nineteenth-Century Huajuapan
As was true in many parts of Mexico, judicial prosecutions for reproductive crimes increased in the last third of the nineteenth century in the small communities of Huajuapan, Oaxaca. This article examines why community members and local officials denounced and investigated Indigenous women in these Mixtec communities for the crime of infanticide in this period. It suggests that local bureaucrats empowered by the positions, practices, and procedu…
Mujeres Públicas and women in public
Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico. These sources reveal that the exaggeration of prostitution's presence is explained by the fact that prostitut…
Since Time Immemorial
Journal Article Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico. Yanna Yannakakis Get access Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico. Yanna Yannakakis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. xii plus 318 pp. $28.95). Nora E Jaffary Nora E Jaffary Concordia University, Montréal, Canada [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8775-0722 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World
Medicine, Midwifery, and the Law
A body of nearly ninety criminal trials for abortion and infanticide in nineteenth-century Yucatán reveal some contradictory traits. On one hand, the testimony that licensed physicians provided to courts about the nature of the medicines that midwives and boticarios supplied to pregnant Mayan women was surprisingly respectful and supportive of these unlicensed health practitioners. The cases reveal both the ongoing practice of Mayan medicinal and…
Maternity and Morality in Puebla's Nineteenth-Century Infanticide Trials
The criminal trials of twenty-seven women processed for the crimes of abortion and infanticide in the state of Puebla, Mexico during the nineteenth century reveal both community and state perspectives about contemporary notions of gender, motherhood, and honor. This paper argues that while there was an increase in both denunciations and convictions for these crimes in the nineteenth century, women's peers acted as reluctant participants in their …
Death Is All Around Us
Reviewed by: Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City by Jonathan M. Weber Nora E. Jaffary Jonathan M. Weber. Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xvi + 278 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-8032-8466-1). The Lugos, a married couple living in one of Mexico City's poorer neighborhoods at the turn of the twentieth century, and …
The Origins of Macho
With lively detail and sensitive analysis, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera confronts in The Origins of Macho the significant questions of how men constructed masculinity in colonial Mexico and whether such constructions resemble the current stereotype of “the explosively violent, virile man who dominates women and other men” (p. 1).Her central conclusion is that colonial masculinity little resembled modern machismo. Despite sporadic evidence of men with vio…
Nicole von Germeten. Profit and Passion
In Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico, Nicole von Germeten delves into the fascinating history of transactional sex in Mexico spanning from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Von Germeten approaches her topic according to one predominant concern and shapes it around one broad narrative. Her concern is to scrupulously specify the terminology and practices associated with transactional sex in this specific context.…
Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas
For All of Humanity
In 1785, the Audiencia of Guatemala issued an edict requiring priests, barbers, healers, and doctors to perform post-mortem caesarean operations on deceased pregnant women and even on those merely suspected of pregnancy in order that the souls of fetuses might be saved through baptism. Fifteen years later, one priest in the presidio of the Petén region praised indigenous woman Nicolasa Chatá for her heroic embrace of the initiative; to save her b…
Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, editors. Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico
In writing the history of colonial Latin America, many of us persist in the tendency to treat emotions uncritically, if we acknowledge their role at all in our analysis. We perceive and describe sorrow, anger, desire, and anxiety as states immediately accessible to us rather than as particular constructions of the varying contexts that crafted, circulated, and absorbed them. This fascinating collection of essays brings the growing field of the hi…
Reconceiving Motherhood
Colonial authorities prosecuted surprisingly few women for the crimes of abortion and infanticide in viceregal Mexico. Although criminal courts tried hundreds of such cases in the nineteenth century, only a handful of trials survive from Mexico’s colonial era. This article examines criminal and inquisition records, jurisprudence, and medical texts to try to explain this discrepancy. The available evidence suggests that women in colonial Mexico di…
Monstrous Births and Creole Patriotism in Late Colonial Mexico
On February 8, 1785, the Gazeta de Mxico , one of New Spain's first news periodicals, published an announcement from the city of Guanajuato celebrating the recent birth of a pair of conjoined twins: Doa Rafaela Corts has delivered two children from one birth, joined together at the back of their heads by the skull. They received the holy waters of baptism and were christened Joseph Nepomuceno Guadalupe and Joseph Ignacio Guadalupe Many people, ad…
Women Who Live Evil Lives
New Spain’s Inquisition in Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua) designated women under investigation for sorcery, healing, and spiritual leadership as “mujeres de mal vivir” (women who live evil lives). These women, most of them mulatas, enacted physical and spiritual cures, settled disputes, and performed “love magic.” Martha Few’s concise presentation of their history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, based primarily on inquis…
The Mexican Treasury
Indians, Merchants, and Markets
The Mystic of Tunja
Enlightened immunity
Enlightened immunity
Women Who Live Evil Lives
New Spain’s Inquisition in Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua) designated women under investigation for sorcery, healing, and spiritual leadership as “mujeres de mal vivir” (women who live evil lives). These women, most of them mulatas, enacted physical and spiritual cures, settled disputes, and performed “love magic.” Martha Few’s concise presentation of their history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, based primarily on inquis…
Reconceiving Motherhood
Colonial authorities prosecuted surprisingly few women for the crimes of abortion and infanticide in viceregal Mexico. Although criminal courts tried hundreds of such cases in the nineteenth century, only a handful of trials survive from Mexico’s colonial era. This article examines criminal and inquisition records, jurisprudence, and medical texts to try to explain this discrepancy. The available evidence suggests that women in colonial Mexico di…
Mujeres Públicas and women in public
Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico. These sources reveal that the exaggeration of prostitution's presence is explained by the fact that prostitut…
Medicine, Midwifery, and the Law
A body of nearly ninety criminal trials for abortion and infanticide in nineteenth-century Yucatán reveal some contradictory traits. On one hand, the testimony that licensed physicians provided to courts about the nature of the medicines that midwives and boticarios supplied to pregnant Mayan women was surprisingly respectful and supportive of these unlicensed health practitioners. The cases reveal both the ongoing practice of Mayan medicinal and…
Maternity and Morality in Puebla's Nineteenth-Century Infanticide Trials
The criminal trials of twenty-seven women processed for the crimes of abortion and infanticide in the state of Puebla, Mexico during the nineteenth century reveal both community and state perspectives about contemporary notions of gender, motherhood, and honor. This paper argues that while there was an increase in both denunciations and convictions for these crimes in the nineteenth century, women's peers acted as reluctant participants in their …
Monstrous Births and Creole Patriotism in Late Colonial Mexico
On February 8, 1785, the Gazeta de Mxico , one of New Spain's first news periodicals, published an announcement from the city of Guanajuato celebrating the recent birth of a pair of conjoined twins: Doa Rafaela Corts has delivered two children from one birth, joined together at the back of their heads by the skull. They received the holy waters of baptism and were christened Joseph Nepomuceno Guadalupe and Joseph Ignacio Guadalupe Many people, ad…
The Mystic of Tunja
The Mexican Treasury
Indians, Merchants, and Markets
Women Who Live Evil Lives
New Spain’s Inquisition in Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua) designated women under investigation for sorcery, healing, and spiritual leadership as “mujeres de mal vivir” (women who live evil lives). These women, most of them mulatas, enacted physical and spiritual cures, settled disputes, and performed “love magic.” Martha Few’s concise presentation of their history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, based primarily on inquis…
Monstrous Births and Creole Patriotism in Late Colonial Mexico
On February 8, 1785, the Gazeta de Mxico , one of New Spain's first news periodicals, published an announcement from the city of Guanajuato celebrating the recent birth of a pair of conjoined twins: Doa Rafaela Corts has delivered two children from one birth, joined together at the back of their heads by the skull. They received the holy waters of baptism and were christened Joseph Nepomuceno Guadalupe and Joseph Ignacio Guadalupe Many people, ad…
Reconceiving Motherhood
Colonial authorities prosecuted surprisingly few women for the crimes of abortion and infanticide in viceregal Mexico. Although criminal courts tried hundreds of such cases in the nineteenth century, only a handful of trials survive from Mexico’s colonial era. This article examines criminal and inquisition records, jurisprudence, and medical texts to try to explain this discrepancy. The available evidence suggests that women in colonial Mexico di…
Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, editors. Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico
In writing the history of colonial Latin America, many of us persist in the tendency to treat emotions uncritically, if we acknowledge their role at all in our analysis. We perceive and describe sorrow, anger, desire, and anxiety as states immediately accessible to us rather than as particular constructions of the varying contexts that crafted, circulated, and absorbed them. This fascinating collection of essays brings the growing field of the hi…
Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas
For All of Humanity
In 1785, the Audiencia of Guatemala issued an edict requiring priests, barbers, healers, and doctors to perform post-mortem caesarean operations on deceased pregnant women and even on those merely suspected of pregnancy in order that the souls of fetuses might be saved through baptism. Fifteen years later, one priest in the presidio of the Petén region praised indigenous woman Nicolasa Chatá for her heroic embrace of the initiative; to save her b…
Nicole von Germeten. Profit and Passion
In Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico, Nicole von Germeten delves into the fascinating history of transactional sex in Mexico spanning from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Von Germeten approaches her topic according to one predominant concern and shapes it around one broad narrative. Her concern is to scrupulously specify the terminology and practices associated with transactional sex in this specific context.…
Death Is All Around Us
Reviewed by: Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City by Jonathan M. Weber Nora E. Jaffary Jonathan M. Weber. Death Is All Around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xvi + 278 pp. Ill. $50.00 (978-0-8032-8466-1). The Lugos, a married couple living in one of Mexico City's poorer neighborhoods at the turn of the twentieth century, and …
The Origins of Macho
With lively detail and sensitive analysis, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera confronts in The Origins of Macho the significant questions of how men constructed masculinity in colonial Mexico and whether such constructions resemble the current stereotype of “the explosively violent, virile man who dominates women and other men” (p. 1).Her central conclusion is that colonial masculinity little resembled modern machismo. Despite sporadic evidence of men with vio…
Medicine, Midwifery, and the Law
A body of nearly ninety criminal trials for abortion and infanticide in nineteenth-century Yucatán reveal some contradictory traits. On one hand, the testimony that licensed physicians provided to courts about the nature of the medicines that midwives and boticarios supplied to pregnant Mayan women was surprisingly respectful and supportive of these unlicensed health practitioners. The cases reveal both the ongoing practice of Mayan medicinal and…
Maternity and Morality in Puebla's Nineteenth-Century Infanticide Trials
The criminal trials of twenty-seven women processed for the crimes of abortion and infanticide in the state of Puebla, Mexico during the nineteenth century reveal both community and state perspectives about contemporary notions of gender, motherhood, and honor. This paper argues that while there was an increase in both denunciations and convictions for these crimes in the nineteenth century, women's peers acted as reluctant participants in their …
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World
Mujeres Públicas and women in public
Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico. These sources reveal that the exaggeration of prostitution's presence is explained by the fact that prostitut…
Enlightened immunity
Since Time Immemorial
Journal Article Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico. Yanna Yannakakis Get access Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico. Yanna Yannakakis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. xii plus 318 pp. $28.95). Nora E Jaffary Nora E Jaffary Concordia University, Montréal, Canada [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8775-0722 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Infanticide in the Americas? An Introductory Essay
The introduction to the special issue explains the significance of studying infanticide in the frame of the Americas and outlines some of the important themes and findings that emerge from the papers. The introduction explores how authors have uncovered a range of reactions to infanticide, how social and emotional contexts matter in cases of suspicious infant deaths, and how and why sexual honor and shame mitigated social and criminal sanctions. …
Bureaucratic Ambitions and Indigenous Defendants in Nineteenth-Century Huajuapan
As was true in many parts of Mexico, judicial prosecutions for reproductive crimes increased in the last third of the nineteenth century in the small communities of Huajuapan, Oaxaca. This article examines why community members and local officials denounced and investigated Indigenous women in these Mixtec communities for the crime of infanticide in this period. It suggests that local bureaucrats empowered by the positions, practices, and procedu…
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