Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America / Zeb Tortorici.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tortorici, Zeb, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin Americans--Sexual behavior--History.

Latin Americans.

Sex crimes--Latin America--History.

Sex crimes.

Sex--Latin America--Religious aspects--History.

Sex.

Sex and law--Latin America--History.

Sex and law.

Sex--Latin America--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Unnatural Bodies, Desires, and Devotions

1. Archival Narratives of Clerical Sodomy and Suicide from Eighteenth-Century Cartagena

2. Sacred Defiance and Sexual Desecration: María Getrudis Arévalo and the Holy Office in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

3. The Devil or Nature Itself? Desire, Doubt, and Diabolical Sex among Colonial Mexican Women

4. Female Homoeroticism, Heresy, and the Holy Office in Colonial Brazil

5. Experimenting with Natur:e José Ignacio Eyzaguirre's General Confession and the Knowledge of the Body (1799-1804)

6. Prosecuting Female-Female Sex in Bourbon Quito

7. Sodomy, Gender, and Identity in the Viceroyalty of Peru

8. Incestuous Natures: Consensual and Forced Relations in Mexico, 1740-1854

Epilogue: Unnatural Sex?

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520963184

0520963180

OCLC:

933611392