Race, gender, and recogimiento: Discursive negotiations of space, sexuality, and productivity in late colonial Mexico
Gargiulo, Megan Elise
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Description
Title
Race, gender, and recogimiento: Discursive negotiations of space, sexuality, and productivity in late colonial Mexico
Author(s)
Gargiulo, Megan Elise
Issue Date
2022-04-18
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Meléndez, Mariselle
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Meléndez, Mariselle
Committee Member(s)
Beauchamp, Toby
Irigoyen García, Javier
Goldman, Dara E
Cervantes-Gómez, Xiomara V
Department of Study
Spanish and Portuguese
Discipline
Spanish
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
women's prisons
18th century
Enlightenment
forced labor
urban studies
carceral studies
debility
Abstract
This dissertation examines recogimientos de mujeres [enclosures for women] in Mexico from 1700 to 1821, a period marked by impending crisis for colonial Spain. Recogimientos were carceral institutions that punished women accused of threatening social order with their “scandalous” behavior. Incarcerated women were frequently poor and racially marginalized. I analyze archival materials to understand how race and gender influenced the representation of space, illness, sexuality, and productivity in recogimientos. Given their role in enforcing order, recogimientos are ideal to assess symptoms of social crisis. My project contributes to understanding colonial biopolitics and Enlightenment rhetoric in colonial Mexico.
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