Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status

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.

subjects: Sodomy,  Gay men, sexual behavior,  Male homosexuality,  Homosexuality, law and legislation,  Spain, social life and customs,  History,  Gay men,  Sexual behavior,  Trials (Sodomy),  Sodomie,  Histoire,  Sources,  Law and legislation,  Homosexuels masculins,  Sexualité,  Homosexualité masculine,  Droit,  LGBTQ history,  History, 17th Century,  History, 16th Century,  Legislation as Topic,  Formal Social Control,  Gender Identity