Queer Iberia

Josiah Blackmore is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of Toronto.Gregory S. Hutcheson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Gregory S. Hutcheson and Josiah Blackmore 1I. Queering Iberia Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and Martyr / Mark D. Jordan 23"Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer / Benjamin Liu 48Queer Representation in the ArÇipreste de Talavera, or, The Maldezir de mugeres Is a Drag / Catherine Brown 73II. Iberian Masculinities "Tanquam effeminatum": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade / Sara Lipton 107The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de buen amor / Louise O. VasvÁri 130Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia / Roberto J. GonzÁlez-Casanovas 157III. Sources of Sodom The Poets of Sodom / Josiah Blackmore 195Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna / Gregory S. Hutcheson 222Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual "Good Love" / Daniel Eisenberg 250IV. Normativity and Nationhood Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francesc Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones / Michael Soloman 277"!A tierra, puto!": Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy / Barbara Weissberger 291"Tened por espejo su fin": Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain / Linde M. Brocato 325V. The Body and the State Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina / E. Michael Gerli 369From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gender the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry 394Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 420Index 457Contributors 475

“An outstanding collection. The pieces are sharp, bold, well argued, and witty; the whole project is-above all-crucial to the much-needed expansion of the fields of Hispanic, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies.”-Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics and Getting Medieval “In this provocative volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double lens of cultural and sexual difference on the medieval and early modern Iberian world, which turns out to be much more akin to our own than we might have suspected.”-Mary Gaylord, Harvard University