Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America's colonial and early national periods. Together the essays examine how "the unnatural" came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as criminal and sinful, including acts officially deemed to be "against nature" - sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation - along with others that approximated the unnatural - hermaphroditism, incest, sex with the devil, solicitation in the confessional, erotic religious visions, and the desecration of holy images. In doing so, this anthology makes important and necessary contributions to the historiography of gender and sexuality. Amid the growing politicized interest in broader LGBTQ movements in Latin America, the essays also show how these legal codes endured to make their way into post - independence Latin America.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-02-09
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520288157

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Foreword, by Asunción Lavrin AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Unnatural Bodies, Desires, and DevotionsZeb TortoriciPart I. unnatural heresies1. Archival Narratives of Clerical Sodomy and Suicide from Eighteenth-Century CartagenaNicole von Germeten2. Sacred Defiance and Sexual Desecration: María Getrudis Arévalo and the Holy Office in Eighteenth-Century MexicoNora E. Jaff ary3. The Devil or Nature Itself? Desire, Doubt, and Diabolical Sex among Colonial Mexican WomenJacqueline S. Holler4. Female Homoeroticism, Heresy, and the Holy Office in Colonial BrazilRonaldo Vainfas and Zeb TortoriciPart II: unnatural crimes5. Experimenting with Nature: José Ignacio Eyzaguirre’s General Confession and the Knowledge of the Body (1799–1804)Martín Bowen Silva6. Prosecuting Female-Female Sex in Bourbon QuitoChad Thomas Black7. Sodomy, Gender, and Identity in the Viceroyalty of PeruFernanda Molina8. Incestuous Natures: Consensual and Forced Relations in Mexico, 1740–1854Lee M. Penyak9. Bestiality: The Nefarious Crime in Mexico, 1800–1856Mílada BazantEpilogue: Unnatural Sex?Pete SigalContributorsIndex

"This volume greatly expands the range of non-normative-although not necessarily rare-behaviors that shaped the sexual landscape of Spanish and Portuguese America. Bookended by contributions from Lavrin and Pete Sigal, this is a self-aware contribution to the historiography of sexuality. ... With its collection of sharp essays based on truly exceptional archival sources, this collection will be a must-read for scholars interested in the history of sexuality in the Iberian American colonies." H-Histsex (H-Net)