Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status
Subtitle: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spains Golden Age
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: February 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780802091390
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; History; History - General History; History: World; Spain; Medieval; History / Medieval; Gay Studies
Description: "Despite the increasing popularity of queer scholarship, no major work in English thus far has explored the evidence of male homosexual behaviour found in the inquisitorial court records of early modern Spain. This absence seems all the more glaring considering the wealth of available archival material. Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status aims to fill this gap by comprehensively examining the Aragonese Inquisition's sodomy trials." "Using court records, Cristian Berco provides an analysis of male sexuality and its connection to public social structures and processes. His study illustrates how male homosexual behaviour existed within a widespread gendered system that extolled the penetrative act as the masculine pursuit of an emasculated passive partner."--Jacket.