Infamous Desire Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America

Name: Infamous Desire Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America
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ISBN: 9780226757049

ISBN-10: 0226757048

ISBN-13: 9780226757049

Edition: 2003

Authors: Pete Sigal

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What did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? What did Iberian groups think of men who had sexual relations with other men? Providing an analyses of how male homosexualities were represented in areas under both Portuguese and Spanish control, this text attempts to answer such questions.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 7.83" wide x 9.13" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction: (Homo) Sexual Desire and Masculine Power in Colonial Latin America: Notes toward an Integrated Analysis




Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender Subjectivity




Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Pre-Hispanic America




Gendered Power, the Hybrid Self, and Homosexual Desire in Late Colonial Yucatan




Political "Abomination" and Private Reservation: The Nefarious Sin, Homosexuality, and Cultural Values in Colonial Peru




Tales of Two Carmelites: Inquisitorial Narratives from Portugal and Brazil




Crypto-Sodomites in Colonial Brazil




The Ashes of Desire: Homosexuality in Mid-Seventeenth-Century New Spain



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