The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar - Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America

"Presents the translated criminal case of Juana Aguilar, an Indigenous intersex person tried between 1790 and 1803 in San Salvador and Guatemala City. The volume offers insight into the legal and medical systems that sought to define Aguilar's identity, illuminating intersections of gender, sexuality, and colonial authority in this period"--

About the author

Sylvia Sellers-García is Professor of History and Director of the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College. She is the author of The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts and Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire’s Periphery and coeditor of Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Sellers-García
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.2025
• EAN: 9780271100340
• ISBN: 978-0-271-10034-0
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Illustrations: Karten
• Series: Latin American Originals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Mexico and Central America, HISTORY / LGBTQ+, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics