Tracing Bad, Colonial-era Women in the cultural heritage of Córdoba (Argentina)

Abstract

In this work we attempt to reflect about the traces left of women who were considered “bad” by colonial justice in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in the documentary, bibliographic and architectural heritage of Córdoba. That is, we
work on the traces that were left of them, in various documentary types of official origin, in legal literature that only an elite read and owned, and in a building that housed the cell destined for them, in the Royal jail of the council; since we understand
that looking for such footprints in records that are not only documentary highlight new aspects. Likewise, we will examine how they were registered in these documents, and about the access and visibility policies implemented by the institutions that host these rich cultural assets, from a gender perspective.