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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Zeb TortoriciPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780520288157ISBN 10: 0520288157 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 09 February 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsForeword, by Asunción Lavrin Acknowledgments Introduction: Unnatural Bodies, Desires, and Devotions Zeb Tortorici Part I. unnatural heresies 1. Archival Narratives of Clerical Sodomy and Suicide from Eighteenth-Century Cartagena Nicole von Germeten 2. Sacred Defiance and Sexual Desecration: María Getrudis Arévalo and the Holy Office in Eighteenth-Century Mexico Nora E. Jaff ary 3. The Devil or Nature Itself? Desire, Doubt, and Diabolical Sex among Colonial Mexican Women Jacqueline S. Holler 4. Female Homoeroticism, Heresy, and the Holy Office in Colonial Brazil Ronaldo Vainfas and Zeb Tortorici Part II: unnatural crimes 5. Experimenting with Nature: José Ignacio Eyzaguirre’s General Confession and the Knowledge of the Body (1799–1804) Martín Bowen Silva 6. Prosecuting Female-Female Sex in Bourbon Quito Chad Thomas Black 7. Sodomy, Gender, and Identity in the Viceroyalty of Peru Fernanda Molina 8. Incestuous Natures: Consensual and Forced Relations in Mexico, 1740–1854 Lee M. Penyak 9. Bestiality: The Nefarious Crime in Mexico, 1800–1856 Mílada Bazant Epilogue: Unnatural Sex? Pete Sigal Contributors IndexReviewsThis 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) Author Information"Zeb Tortorici is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University. He recently coedited Centering Animals in Latin American History as well as two special issues of Radical History Review on the topic of ""Queering Archives.""" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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