Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America

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Pete Sigal
University of Chicago Press, 2003 - History - 223 pages
Introduction: (Homo)Sexual Desire and Masculine Power in Colonial Latin America: Notes toward an Integrated Analysis, Pete Sigal1. Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender SubjectivityMichael J. Horswell2. Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Pre-Hispanic AmericaRichard C. Trexler3. Gendered Power, the Hybrid Self, and Homosexual Desire in Late Colonial YucatanPete Sigal4. Political "Abomination" and Private Reservation: The Nefarious Sin, Homosexuality, and Cultural Values in Colonial PeruWard Stavig5. Tales of Two Carmelites: Inquisitorial Narratives from Portugal and BrazilDavid Higgs6. Crypto-Sodomites in Colonial BrazilLuiz Mott, translated by Salima Popat7. The Ashes of Desire: Homosexuality in Mid-Seventeenth-Century New SpainSerge Gruzinski, translated by Ignacio Lopez-CalvoList of ContributorsIndex
 

Contents

Notes toward an Integrated Analysis
1
1 Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual SameSex Sexuality and ThirdGender Subjectivity
25
2 Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in PreHispanic America
70
3 Gendered Power the Hybrid Self and Homosexual Desire in Late Colonial Yucatan
102
The Nefarious Sin Homosexuality and Cultural Values in Colonial Peru
134
Inquisitorial Narratives from Portugal and Brazil
152
6 CryptoSodomites in Colonial Brazil
168
Homosexuality in MidSeventeenthCentury New Spain
197
List of Contributors
215
Index
217
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Pete Sigal is an associate professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire.

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