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1 online resource (xx, 310 pages) : illustrations |
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Prologue: Varied Textures -- Ch. 1. A Total Man and a Total Woman -- Ch. 2. A Brief History of Early Modern Spain on Sodomie -- Ch. 3. Mariner, Would You Scratch My Legs? -- Ch. 4. Cotita and the Antipodas, or How a Cadre of Effeminate Sodomites Infested New Spain with an Endemic Cancer Known as the Abominable Sin Contra Natura -- Epilogue: He Died of a Broken Heart -- App. 1. Natura Armada -- App. 2. Tentando pijas y siesos: Como se confirma el derramamiento de la suciedad -- App. 3. Cotita que es lo mismo que mariquita y sus lindas ninas en la cuidad de Mexico |
| Summary |
"Garza Carvajal's fascinating and thought-provoking book effectively analyzes the connections between masculinity and the discourse surrounding sodomy in early modern Spain and colonial Mexico. ... This book is extraordinary, and I strongly recommend it."--Peter Sigal, Associate Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"-sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and hundreds of sodomites were tortured, garroted, or burned alive for violating Spanish ideals of manliness. Yet in reality, as Federico Garza Carvajal argues in this groundbreaking book, the prosecution of sodomites had little to do with issues of gender and was much more a concomitant of empire building and the need to justify political and economic domination of subject peoples. Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andaluciacute;a, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico), its first and largest American colony. From these discourses, he convincingly demonstrates that the concept of sodomy (more than the actual practice) was crucial to the Iberian colonizing program. Because sodomy opposed the ideal of "Vir" and the Spanish nationhood with which it was intimately associated, the prosecution of sodomy justified Spain's domination of foreigners (many of whom were represented as sodomites) in the peninsula and of "Indios" in Mexico, a totally subject people depicted as effeminate and prone to sodomitical acts, cannibalism, and inebriation |
| Notes |
Revised and updated edition. Originally published in 2000, by the University of Amsterdam, under title: Vir : perceptions of manliness in Andalucía and México 1561-1699 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-302) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Men -- Spain -- Andalusia -- History
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Masculinity -- Mexico -- History
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Trials (Sodomy) -- Spain -- Andalusia -- History
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Trials (Sodomy) -- Mexico -- History
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Sex role.
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sex role.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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Masculinity.
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Men.
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Sex role.
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Trials (Sodomy)
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Sodomie
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Mexico.
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Spain -- Andalusia.
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Spanien
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Neuspanien
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Garza Carvajal, Federico.
Vir.
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| ISBN |
029279861X |
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9780292798618 |
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9780292701830 |
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0292701837 |
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9780292702219 |
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0292702213 |
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