"Persuadido solo de que es hombre se atrevió a golpearme". Violencia conyugal en el obispado de Concepción. 1844-1880

Abstract

The present article analyzes the history of four families from the point of view of its behavors and attitudes, that it confronts their sensibilities and realities, and it tries to observe, through divorce cases, the interior of the lives of these marriages, to understand the causes or circumstances that make them derive in projects of unfinished unions. The worked documentation, they are four divorce trials, rescued from the Ecclesiastical File of Concepción's Archbishopric that trials have as selection approach to have arrived to definitive resolution on the part of the ecclesiastical tribunal. Specifically in this article we will center our analyses in the masculine speech and their reaction in front of the divorce demand presented by their wives