Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain - The Invention of the Sexes

This book explores the popular and elite debates over the creation of a two-sex model of human bodies in eighteenth-century Spain.

List of contents

Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The anatomy of sex; 2. Medical theory versus practice: the case of Sebastián/María Leirado; 3. Nature, nurture and early modern sexuality; 4. The body of law: legislating sex in eighteenth-century Spain; 5. Sex and gender: reconsidering the legacy of the enlightenment; Endnotes; Bibliograph.

About the author

Marta V. Vicente is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Women and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She has published widely on the history of gender and sexuality and is author of Clothing the Spanish Empire: Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic (2006).

Summary

Vicente analyses the philosophical, medical and legal debates about sexual difference in eighteenth-century Spain to demonstrate how formal definitions of man and woman often clashed with the reality of sex and gender, utilising case studies to trace the lives of particular individuals with ambiguous sexual and gender traits.

Product details

• Authors: Marta V. Vicente, Marta V. (University of Kansas) Vicente, Martha V. Vicente, Vicente Marta V.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107159556
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15955-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Spain, HISTORY / Europe / General, Gender studies, gender groups, C 1700 To C 1800