{"product_id":"butterflies-will-burn-prosecuting-sodomites-in-early-modern-spain-and-mexico-paperback-softback-9780292702219","title":"Butterflies Will Burn; Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292702219","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eButterflies Will Burn\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eProsecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFederico Garza Carvajal (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292702219\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or \"Vir\" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the \"abominable crime and sin against nature\"-sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and hundreds of sodomites were tortured, garroted, or burned alive for violating Spanish ideals of manliness. Yet in reality, as Federico Garza Carvajal argues in this groundbreaking book, the prosecution of sodomites had little to do with issues of gender and was much more a concomitant of empire building and the need to justify political and economic domination of subject peoples. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in AndalucÍa, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico), its first and largest American colony. From these discourses, he convincingly demonstrates that the concept of sodomy (more than the actual practice) was crucial to the Iberian colonizing program. Because sodomy opposed the ideal of \"Vir\" and the Spanish nationhood with which it was intimately associated, the prosecution of sodomy justified Spain's domination of foreigners (many of whom were represented as sodomites) in the peninsula and of \"Indios\" in Mexico, a totally subject people depicted as effeminate and prone to sodomitical acts, cannibalism, and inebriation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes on Translation and Transcription \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Abbreviations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prologue: Varied Textures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. A Total Man and a Total Woman \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. A Brief History of Early Modern Spain on Sodomie \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Mariner, Would You Scratch My Legs? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Cotita and the Antipodas, or How a Cadre of Effeminate Sodomites Infested New Spain with an Endemic Cancer Known as the Abominable Sin contra Natura \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue: He Died of a Broken Heart \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix 1: Natura Armada \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix 2: Tentando pijas y siesos: Como se confirma el derramamiento de la suciedad \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix 3: Cotita que es lo mismo que mariquita y sus lindas niÑ\u003cbr\u003eas en la ciudad de MÉ\u003cbr\u003exico \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glossary \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Works Cited \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530842173720,"sku":"9780292702219","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/butterflies-will-burn-prosecuting-sodomites-in-early-modern-spain-and-mexico-paperback-softback-9780292702219","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}