Infamous Desire

Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America

By: Pete Sigal (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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What did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? More specifically, what did indigenous and Iberian groups think of men who had sexual relations with other men? Providing comprehensive analyses of how male homosexualities were represented in areas under Portuguese and Spanish control, Infamous Desire is the first book-length attempt to answer such questions. In a study that will be indispensable for anyone studying sexuality and gender in colonial Latin America, an esteemed group of contributors view sodomy through the lens of desire and power, relating male homosexual behavior to broader gender systems that defined masculinity and femininity.

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"This collection explores various facets of homosexual identity . . . in what we now call Latin America from the pre-conquest period through the eighteenth century. It attends to various racial and ethnic groups, and various social classes. . . . Most importantly, however, it gives space to contending voices in the ongoing debate over the nature and history of homosexuality, both in colonial Latin America and beyond. As such, it will be useful to readers interested in queer studies and cultural studies in general, and not just to Latin Americanists."--Ricardo Paderon, "Bulletin of Spanish Studies"

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Introduction: (Homo) Sexual Desire and Masculine Power in Colonial Latin America: Notes toward an Integrated Analysis	p. 1
Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender Subjectivity	p. 25
Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Pre-Hispanic America	p. 70
Gendered Power, the Hybrid Self, and Homosexual Desire in Late Colonial Yucatan	p. 102
Political "Abomination" and Private Reservation: The Nefarious Sin, Homosexuality, and Cultural Values in Colonial Peru	p. 134
Tales of Two Carmelites: Inquisitorial Narratives from Portugal and Brazil	p. 152
Crypto-Sodomites in Colonial Brazil	p. 168
The Ashes of Desire: Homosexuality in Mid-Seventeenth-Century New Spain	p. 197
List of Contributors	p. 215
Index	p. 217
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