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The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar : Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sellers-García, Sylvia.
- Series:
- Latin American Originals Series
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Aguilar, Juana, approximately 1762---Trials, litigation, etc.
- Aguilar, Juana.
- Trials (Sodomy).
- Trials (Sex crimes).
- Intersex people.
- Intersex people--Identity.
- Intersex people--Medical examinations--Central America--History--19th century--Sources.
- Intersex people--Medical examinations--Central America--History--18th century--Sources.
- Intersex people--Central America--Identity--History--19th century--Sources.
- Intersex people--Central America--Identity--History--18th century--Sources.
- Intersex people--Legal status, laws, etc--Central America--History--19th century--Sources.
- Intersex people--Legal status, laws, etc--Central America--History--18th century--Sources.
- Trials (Sodomy)--Guatemala.
- Trials (Sex crimes)--Guatemala.
- Guatemala.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Primary sources.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Translations
- Sources
- primary sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (119 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- English text, partially translated from the Spanish.
- Biography/History:
- Sellers-Garcia Sylvia: Sylvia Sellers-Garcia is Professor of History and Director of the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College. She is the author of The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts and Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empires Periphery and coeditor of Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices. Sylvia Sellers-Garcia is Professor of History and Director of the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College. She is the author of The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts and Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empires Periphery and coeditor of Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices.
- Summary:
- "Presents the translated criminal case of Juana Aguilar, an Indigenous intersex person tried between 1790 and 1803 in San Salvador and Guatemala City. The volume offers insight into the legal and medical systems that sought to define Aguilar's identity, illuminating intersections of gender, sexuality, and colonial authority in this period"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Principal individuals in the case
- Criminal case against Juana Aguilar.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-271-10075-3
- 0-271-10076-1
- 9780271100760
- OCLC:
- 1568764264
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