Deaths for honor: homicides against women during the first half of the 19th Century

Abstract

During the first half of the Mexican nineteenth century, society evidenced an inequality based on the binomial domination / subordination between men and women as part of the patriarchal hegemonic system. This society reproduced the submission of women through multiple devices of power that naturalized the domination of the masculine over the feminine and, in a certain way, the use of conjugal violence. From homicides against women, it is studied how society and judicial institutions allowed marital violence, until death, as an element of control in a society governed by patriarchal values.