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Title Sexuality and the unnatural in colonial Latin America / edited by Zeb Tortorici
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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Contents Archival narratives of clerical sodomy and suicide from eighteenth-century Cartagena / Nicole von Germeten -- Sacred defiance and sexual desecration : María Gertrudis Arávalo and the Holy Office in eighteenth-century Mexico / Nora E. Jaffary -- The devil or nature itself? : desire, doubt, and diabolical sex among colonial Mexican women / Jacqueline S. Holler -- Female homoeroticism, heresy, and the Holy Office in colonial Brazil / Ronaldo Vainfas and Zeb Tortorici -- Experimenting with nature : José Ignacio Eyzaguirre's general confession and the knowledge of the body (1799-1804) / Martín Bowen-Silva -- Prosecuting female-female sex in Bourbon Quito / Chad Thomas Black -- Sodomy, gender, and identity in the Viceroyalty of Peru / Fernanda Molina -- Incestuous natures : consensual and forced relations in Mexico, 1740-1854 / Lee M. Penyak -- Bestiality : the nefarious crime in Mexico, 1800-1856 / Mílada Bazant -- Epilogue : unnatural sex? / Pete Sigal
Summary "Explores 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"--Provided by publisher
Analysis alternative sexualities
bestiality
colonial latin america
criminalized sex acts
criminalizing sex
early national period latin america
gender studies
hermaphroditism
history of sex
history of sexuality
illicit sexuality
immoral sex
incest
incestuous sex
latin american colonies
latinx lgbtq
latinx sexuality
lgbtq latin america
masturbation
natural sex acts
natural sexuality
sex and sexuality
sex with the devil
sexuality studies
sodomy
solicitation in the confessional
unnatural sexuality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sex -- Latin America -- History
Sex and law -- Latin America -- History
Sex -- Latin America -- Religious aspects -- History
Sex crimes -- Latin America -- History
Latin Americans -- Sexual behavior -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
Sex
Sex and law
Sex crimes
Sex -- Religious aspects
Latin America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Tortorici, Zeb, 1978- editor.
ISBN 9780520963184
0520963180