Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andalucía, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the vice
Trade Review"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
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Translation and Transcription
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Varied Textures
- Chapter 1. A Total Man and a Total Woman
- Chapter 2. A Brief History of Early Modern Spain on Sodomie
- Chapter 3. Mariner, Would You Scratch My Legs?
- Chapter 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
- Appendix 1: Natura Armada
- Appendix 2: Tentando pijas y siesos: Como se confirma el derramamiento de la suciedad
- Appendix 3: Cotita que es lo mismo que mariquita y sus lindas niñas en la ciudad de México
- Notes
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
