Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas
by Richard C. Trexler
Category: Social Science

A historical account of the berdache--biological men who performed the offices and work of women, including sexual service--in Europe and America at the time of the Conquest. Trexler examines the sexual culture of both early modern Iberia and the native American world of that era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR