Participación de la mujer en la economía en el Nuevo Reino de Granada: 1750-1830

Abstract

The restrictions to which women were subjected in the political, economic and social spheres in El Nuevo Reino de Granada involved the exercise of trades related to the domestic and private sphere, to convent life and to the care and maintenance of the family. . However, phenomena such as caste relations, the dissolution of conjugal unions, the greater demographic proportion of women with limited resources, and the economic and political transitions produced in the Kingdoms of the Indies in the last three decades of the 18th century, made possible the effective and more active participation of women in various areas of the economy at the time despite the statutory restrictions.

Having said this, the purpose of this research is to clarify the role played by women in the economy of the time, beyond what was normatively understood as morally correct in relation to female life and the trades that women could carry out. women and the way in which the exercise of their trades made possible the relations between castes and social mobility. By problematizing the participation of women in the economy of the New Kingdom of Granada, this research seeks to establish a comprehensive perspective of the complex social dynamics produced in function of the trades performed by women and their implications for the social structure of the time.