{"product_id":"queer-iberia-9780822323495","title":"Queer Iberia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An outstanding collection. The pieces are sharp, bold, well argued, and witty; the whole project is—above all—crucial to the much-needed expansion of the fields of Hispanic, postcolonial, and lesbian\/gay\/bisexual\/transgender studies.”—Carolyn Dinshaw, author of \u003ci\u003eChaucer’s Sexual Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGetting Medieval\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this provocative volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double lens of cultural and sexual difference on the medieval and early modern Iberian world, which turns out to be much more akin to our own than we might have suspected.”—Mary Gaylord, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Gregory S. Hutcheson and Josiah Blackmore 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Queering Iberia \u003cbr\u003e Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and Martyr \/ Mark D. Jordan 23\u003cbr\u003e \"Affined to love the Moor\": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the \u003ci\u003eCantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Benjamin Liu 48\u003cbr\u003e Queer Representation in the \u003ci\u003eArçipreste de Talavera\u003c\/i\u003e, or, The \u003ci\u003eMaldezir de mugeres\u003c\/i\u003e Is a Drag \/ Catherine Brown 73\u003cbr\u003e II. Iberian Masculinities \u003cbr\u003e \"Tanquam effeminatum\": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade \/ Sara Lipton 107\u003cbr\u003e The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the \u003ci\u003eLibro de buen amor\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Louise O. Vasvári 130\u003cbr\u003e Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia \/ Roberto J. González-Casanovas 157\u003cbr\u003e III. Sources of Sodom \u003cbr\u003e The Poets of Sodom \/ Josiah Blackmore 195\u003cbr\u003e Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna \/ Gregory S. Hutcheson 222\u003cbr\u003e Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual \"Good Love\" \/ Daniel Eisenberg 250\u003cbr\u003e IV. Normativity and Nationhood \u003cbr\u003e Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francesc Eiximenis's \u003ci\u003eLo llibre de les dones\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Michael Soloman 277\u003cbr\u003e \"!A tierra, puto!\": Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy \/ Barbara Weissberger 291\u003cbr\u003e \"Tened por espejo su fin\": Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain \/ Linde M. Brocato 325\u003cbr\u003e V. The Body and the State \u003cbr\u003e Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in \u003ci\u003eCelestina\u003c\/i\u003e \/ E. Michael Gerli 369\u003cbr\u003e From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gender the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain \/ Mary Elizabeth Perry 394\u003cbr\u003e Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain \/ Israel Burshatin 420\u003cbr\u003e Index 457\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 475","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406023500119,"sku":"9780822323495","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822323495.jpg?v=1730494279","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queer-iberia-9780822323495","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}