Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal: inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms
Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal: inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender – men accused of being women and women accused of being men – or even hermaphrodites.
Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World. It throws light upon the manner in which the Inquisition, medical practitioners and the wider society in Spain and Portugal … read moreresponded to transgenderism and on the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted these social and sexual conventions.
9789004225299
Soyer, Francois
3ccef83c-fad6-46be-b6a0-300d69a30528
August 2012
Soyer, Francois
3ccef83c-fad6-46be-b6a0-300d69a30528
Soyer, Francois
(2012)
Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal: inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms
(The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 47),
vol. 47,
Leiden, NL.
Brill, 350pp.
Abstract
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender – men accused of being women and women accused of being men – or even hermaphrodites.
Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World. It throws light upon the manner in which the Inquisition, medical practitioners and the wider society in Spain and Portugal … read moreresponded to transgenderism and on the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted these social and sexual conventions.
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Accepted/In Press date: June 2012
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/340201
ISBN: 9789004225299
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