Abstract

The present study aims at addressing how perceptions of sexual honor were developed and assimilated in everyday life and social relationships in the city of Porto Alegre during the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. Throughout an analysis of criminal lawsuits of deflowering, I assessed the construction of the idea of sexual honor in a relational perspective, in an attempt to understand how gender and class interactions played a role in structuring it.

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