Fr. 32.90

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

English · Paperback / Softback

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"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.

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