Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

by ZebTortorici (Author), Zeb Tortorici (Author), Zeb Tortorici (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2018

  $28.44

  Drawing on over 300 prosecutions of sex acts in colonial New Spain between 1530 and 1821, Zeb Tortorici shows how courts used the concept against nature to try those accused of sodomy, bestiality, and other sex acts, thereby demonstrating how the archive influences understandings of bodies, desires, and social categories.