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SINCHE AGUILAR, Hilda. "Poor Defenseless Women": Physical Violence against Women in Colonial La Paz. Historia [online]. 2017, n.37, pp. 117-136. ISSN 2519-0253.

This article addresses the social history of gender violence. It offers an approach to the physical violence against women in the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz in the late eighteenth century. Its reflects on both domestic violence and violence not involving people relat-ed through kinship.

Palavras-chave : History of violence against women; gender violence; history of violence in couples; colonial period; eighteenth century; Nuestra Señora de La Paz.