Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal

Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
Author: Francois Soyer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004225293
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Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World and the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted social and sexual conventions.


Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
Language: en
Pages: 345

Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal

Authors: Francois Soyer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: BRILL

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Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early moder
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
Language: en
Pages: 344

Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal

Authors: François Soyer
Categories: Gender identity
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the
Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire
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Popularizing Anti-Semitism in Early Modern Spain and its Empire

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Language: en
Pages: 310

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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-07 - Publisher: BRILL

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Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to lit