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François Soyer Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal
inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender – men accused of being women and women accused of being men – or even hermaphrodites.This study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World. It throws light upon the manner in which the Inquisition, medical...
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Engels | 328 pagina's | Brill, Leiden [etc.] | 2012
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