Violence against women in Pere Joan Porcar’s Dietari (16th–17th centuries)
The diary titled Coses evengudes en la ciutat y regne de València, which was written by Monsignor Pere Joan Porcar between 1585 and 1629, is one of the literary testimonies of the Valencian Baroque that has aroused major interest among scholars. However, it has never been analyzed from a gender perspective. Therefore, in the present work we propose to analyze and establish a typology of the different cases of sexist violence that the document reports, and that ended with the injury or death of women: wives, unmarried women, maids, girls, etc. In conclusion the diary depicts a patriarchal society presided over by structural violence, where women only played a marginal role.
Article outline
- 1.An invisible kind of violence
- 2.Violence typologies in Porcar’s Diary
- 2.1Public or social violence
- 2.2Private or domestic violence
- 2.3Apparently unmotivated violence
- 2.4Random or incidental violence
- 2.5Incitement to violence or self-violence
- 2.6Woman-exerted violence
- 3.The powerless, prime victims of violence
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