Zeb Tortorici 
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America [EPUB ebook] 

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. 

Daftar Isi

Foreword, by Asunción Lavrin Acknowledgments


Introduction: Unnatural Bodies, Desires, and Devotions

Zeb Tortorici


Part I. unnatural heresies


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

Nicole von Germeten

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

Nora E. Jaff ary

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

Jacqueline S. Holler

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

Ronaldo Vainfas and Zeb Tortorici


Part II: unnatural crimes


5. Experimenting with Nature: José Ignacio Eyzaguirre’s General Confession and the Knowledge of the Body (1799–1804)

Martín Bowen Silva

6. Prosecuting Female-Female Sex in Bourbon Quito

Chad Thomas Black

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

Fernanda Molina

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

Lee M. Penyak

9. Bestiality: The Nefarious Crime in Mexico, 1800–1856

Mílada Bazant


Epilogue: Unnatural Sex?

Pete Sigal

Contributors

Index  

Tentang Penulis

Zeb Tortorici is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University. He recently coedited Centering Animals in Latin American History as well as two special issues of Radical History Review on the topic of "Queering Archives."