Sex and Conquest 
Subtitle: Gendered Violence, Political Order and the European Conquest of the Americas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: February 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780801484827
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Gender studies; United States - Colonial Period; History: American; Social Science; History - U.S.; Central America; North America; South America; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Sociology - General
First sentence: A century ago the orientalist Richard Burton determined that there was a particular region of the globe, which he called the Sotadic Zone, where male homosexual behavior was common and condoned.3