Struggles for identity. Social representations, medical discourses and judicial practices before sexual ambiguity (Spain, 16th-17th Centuries)

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During the 16th and 17th centuries, a series of extraordinary cases that involved suspicions of hermaphroditism, sex changes, cross-dressing, and sex-same relationships altered the everyday life of some Spanish cities and towns. While some of them came to courts, others were recorded in letters, chr...

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Autor principal: Molina, Fernanda
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2017
Materias:
Hermafroditismo
cambio de sexo
sodomía
identidad
España moderna
Hermaphroditism
change sex
sodomy
identity
modern Spain
Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/3347
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spelling I28-R145-3347_oai2025-11-17 Molina, Fernanda 2017-03-17 During the 16th and 17th centuries, a series of extraordinary cases that involved suspicions of hermaphroditism, sex changes, cross-dressing, and sex-same relationships altered the everyday life of some Spanish cities and towns. While some of them came to courts, others were recorded in letters, chronicles and treatises of the period by virtue of their “curiosity”. On the basis of analysis of individual trajectories of the protagonists, the performance of the judges who participated in such cases and medical discourses which focused on the phenomena of sexual ambiguity, this paper explores the tensions and contradictions between sex, gender and sexuality in the attempt to define a discrete identity in contexts of sexual uncertainty.  Este artículo indaga en una serie de fenómenos de ambigüedad sexual como el hermafroditismo, supuestos cambios de sexo, travestismo y relaciones sexuales entre personas del mismo sexo que tuvieron lugar en varias ciudades y villas españolas durante los siglos XVI y XVII. A partir del análisis de causas de fe incoadas por los tribunales inquisitoriales así como de cartas, crónicas y tratados del período que registraron este tipo de fenómenos, el trabajo indaga en las trayectorias individuales de los protagonistas, la actuación de los magistrados y los discursos médicos relativos a los fenómenos de ambigüedad sexual que intervinieron en esos casos, a fin de revelar los mecanismos orientados a la definición de una identidad sexual discreta en contextos de ambigüedad o indeterminación sexuales.  application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/3347 10.34096/ahamm.v50.3347 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/analesHAMM/article/view/3347/3041 Anales de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna; Vol. 50 (2016); 95-114 1853-1555 1514-9927 Hermafroditismo cambio de sexo sodomía identidad España moderna Hermaphroditism change sex sodomy identity modern Spain Struggles for identity. Social representations, medical discourses and judicial practices before sexual ambiguity (Spain, 16th-17th Centuries) Disputas por la identidad. Representaciones sociales, discursos médicos y prácticas judiciales ante Los fenómenos de ambigüedad sexual (España, siglos XVI-XVII) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=moderna&d=3347_oai
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topic Hermafroditismo
cambio de sexo
sodomía
identidad
España moderna
Hermaphroditism
change sex
sodomy
identity
modern Spain
spellingShingle Hermafroditismo
cambio de sexo
sodomía
identidad
España moderna
Hermaphroditism
change sex
sodomy
identity
modern Spain
Molina, Fernanda
Struggles for identity. Social representations, medical discourses and judicial practices before sexual ambiguity (Spain, 16th-17th Centuries)
topic_facet Hermafroditismo
cambio de sexo
sodomía
identidad
España moderna
Hermaphroditism
change sex
sodomy
identity
modern Spain
description During the 16th and 17th centuries, a series of extraordinary cases that involved suspicions of hermaphroditism, sex changes, cross-dressing, and sex-same relationships altered the everyday life of some Spanish cities and towns. While some of them came to courts, others were recorded in letters, chronicles and treatises of the period by virtue of their “curiosity”. On the basis of analysis of individual trajectories of the protagonists, the performance of the judges who participated in such cases and medical discourses which focused on the phenomena of sexual ambiguity, this paper explores the tensions and contradictions between sex, gender and sexuality in the attempt to define a discrete identity in contexts of sexual uncertainty. 
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title_short Struggles for identity. Social representations, medical discourses and judicial practices before sexual ambiguity (Spain, 16th-17th Centuries)
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title_full_unstemmed Struggles for identity. Social representations, medical discourses and judicial practices before sexual ambiguity (Spain, 16th-17th Centuries)
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