Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname

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Autor(a) principal: Rose,Sophie
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: Abstract This article examines Portuguese-Jewish women’s engagement with the Dutch colonial authorities in eighteenth-century Suriname. It offers a historical context for Suriname’s Sephardic community and its unique set of privileges, in conjunction with an elaboration of Dutch (colonial) law on marriage and the property rights of Jewish women. Next, the judicial practice is explored, showing how Jewish women, and predominantly widows, made active use of colonial institutions to assert their rights and interests, and how women and girls of marriageable age occupied a complex position of considerable socio-economic influence paired with a convergence of legal and familial constraints.
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spelling Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century SurinameMarriageKetubaKiddushinUse of justiceCaribbeanAbstract This article examines Portuguese-Jewish women’s engagement with the Dutch colonial authorities in eighteenth-century Suriname. It offers a historical context for Suriname’s Sephardic community and its unique set of privileges, in conjunction with an elaboration of Dutch (colonial) law on marriage and the property rights of Jewish women. Next, the judicial practice is explored, showing how Jewish women, and predominantly widows, made active use of colonial institutions to assert their rights and interests, and how women and girls of marriageable age occupied a complex position of considerable socio-economic influence paired with a convergence of legal and familial constraints.Universidade do PortoBrown University2023-06-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articletext/htmlhttp://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-64322023000100054e-Journal of Portuguese History v.21 n.1 2023reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttp://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-64322023000100054Rose,Sophieinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2024-02-06T17:17:47Zoai:scielo:S1645-64322023000100054Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T02:26:13.531322Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname
spellingShingle Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname
Rose,Sophie
Marriage
Ketuba
Kiddushin
Use of justice
Caribbean
title_short Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname
title_full Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname
title_fullStr Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname
title_full_unstemmed Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname
title_sort Contesting Ketubas, Negotiating Nuptials: Sephardic Women and Colonial Law in Eighteenth-Century Suriname
author Rose,Sophie
author_facet Rose,Sophie
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Rose,Sophie
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Marriage
Ketuba
Kiddushin
Use of justice
Caribbean
topic Marriage
Ketuba
Kiddushin
Use of justice
Caribbean
description Abstract This article examines Portuguese-Jewish women’s engagement with the Dutch colonial authorities in eighteenth-century Suriname. It offers a historical context for Suriname’s Sephardic community and its unique set of privileges, in conjunction with an elaboration of Dutch (colonial) law on marriage and the property rights of Jewish women. Next, the judicial practice is explored, showing how Jewish women, and predominantly widows, made active use of colonial institutions to assert their rights and interests, and how women and girls of marriageable age occupied a complex position of considerable socio-economic influence paired with a convergence of legal and familial constraints.
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