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Butterflies will burn : prosecuting sodomites in early modern Spain and Mexico /
"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 Profe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"-sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and hundreds of sodomites were tortured, garroted, or burned alive for violating Spanish ideals of manliness. Yet in reality, as Federico Garza Carvajal argues in this groundbreaking book, the prosecution of sodomites had little to do with issues of gender and was much more a concomitant of empire building and the need to justify political and economic domination of subject peoples. Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andaluciacute;a, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico), its first and largest American colony. From these discourses, he convincingly demonstrates that the concept of sodomy (more than the actual practice) was crucial to the Iberian colonizing program. Because sodomy opposed the ideal of "Vir" and the Spanish nationhood with which it was intimately associated, the prosecution of sodomy justified Spain's domination of foreigners (many of whom were represented as sodomites) in the peninsula and of "Indios" in Mexico, a totally subject people depicted as effeminate and prone to sodomitical acts, cannibalism, and inebriation |
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| Notas: | Revised and updated edition. Originally published in 2000, by the University of Amsterdam, under title: Vir : perceptions of manliness in Andalucía and México 1561-1699. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-302) and index. |
| ISBN: | 029279861X 9780292798618 9780292701830 0292701837 9780292702219 0292702213 |