ISBN:
9781350377592
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xvii, 186 Seiten
DDC:
306.768
Schlagwort(e):
European history
;
Europäische Geschichte
;
HISTORY / Europe / Western
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HISTORY / Social History
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SOC064020
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Social & cultural history
;
Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Portugal
;
Inquisition
;
Transgender
;
Geschlechterforschung
Kurzfassung:
This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th century. François Soyer uses Maria s story to open a window onto the world of the experience of transing gender, as well as the gendered attitudes and responses to the transgression of gendered norms that were adopted by churchmen, medical practitioners and ordinary lay men and women. Drawing on the surviving (and staggeringly 736-page long) sorcery trial dossier, Soyer analyses the secretive life of an individual who actively and deliberately transed gender. The dossier analysis enables insights into aspects of life so rarely recorded in early modern documents: the transgression of gender norms, transgressive sexuality and sexual violence in female religious institutions, in addition to the fears and debates about the power that the Devil could wield over the human body. The Catalan Hermaphrodite and the Inquisition also reveals how the Inquisition gathered a number of doctors, surgeons and midwives to conduct careful examinations of Maria s body in general and genitals in particular. Their reports and the discussions of the inquisitors are discussed by Soyer and offer further fascinating evidence of attitudes towards sex and gender in early modern Europe
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Chronology of the Life and Trial of Maria DuranList of Abbreviations MapsIntroductionPart I: The Remarkable Life of Maria Duran1. The Fugitive Wife from a Small Village in the Pyrenees 2. Maria Becomes a Soldier3. Maria Duran Travels to Lisbon4. Sex and Suspicion in the Recolhimentos of Lisbon5. The Nuns and Novices of Our Lady of Paradise6. Enter the Inquisition7. Maria on Trial8. A Real Woman and Not a Hermaphrodite : The Anatomical Examination of Maria Duran9. Torture, Verdict and Punishment10. Maria on Display: the Auto-da-fé of 21 June 1744Part II: The Maria Duran Mystery: Transgressive Sexuality, Transing Gender and Gender Performativity in the Trial of Maria DuranEpilogueBibliographyIndex
Anmerkung:
Zielgruppe: 5PS, Bezug zu Schwulen, Lesben und Bisexuellen
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