Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from September 2007

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from September 2007

Introduction to the special issue.
September 1, 2007... THIS ISSUE OF THE Journal of the History of Sexuality devoted to Latin American sexualities had its genesis as a conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the University of California, San Diego, of which I was...

Masturbation, salvation, and desire: connecting sexuality and religiosity in colonial Mexico.
September 1, 2007... ON 23 JANUARY 1621 a Spanish priest and commissary of the Mexican Holy Office of the Inquisition in Queretaro, Fray Manuel de Santo Thomas, came forth to denounce the twenty-year-old Agustina Ruiz, who had, according to him, never completed the...

Women on top: the love magic of the Indian witches of New Mexico.(Essay)
September 1, 2007... IT WAS AN APRIL NIGHT IN 1734, recalled Maria Manuela de Armijo. It must have been eight o'clock or thereabouts. Outside on the streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico, all was still. Inside Maria's house the day's end had brought a peaceful hush. The...

Conjugal violence, sex, sin, and murder in the mission communities of Alta California.
September 1, 2007... ON THE EVENING OF 16 NOVEMBER 1811 Fray Jose Pedro Panto (1778-1812) retired for the evening to enjoy his evening meal at Mission San Diego. After consuming a small portion of his dinner, he noticed that his soup tasted unusually spicy and...

Masculine friendships, sentiment, and homoerotics in nineteenth-century Mexico: the correspondence of Jose Maria Calderon y Tapia, 1820s-1850s.(Essay)
September 1, 2007... MEXICAN STATESMAN GUILLERMO PRIETO (1818-97) narrated in his memoirs how in 1840 and 1841 he became the companion--confidant, private secretary, and bedfellow--of President Anastasio Bustamante (1780-1853), a lifelong bachelor thirty-eight...

Plebeian masculinity and sexual comedy in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930.(Essay)
September 1, 2007... IN DESCRIBING LATE-NINETEENTH- and early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires, Argentine historians often invoke the category of "progress." Basing their analysis on the immense economic and urban growth of the period, scholars usually deploy this...

Sex and the security state: gender, sexuality, and "subversion" at Brazil's Escola Superior de Guerra, 1964-1985.(Essay)
September 1, 2007... The maintenance of a reasonable state of national security constitutes a continuous and unceasing process... [because] the Nation itself... will always have contrary interests that threaten its sovereignty and freedom,...

"Obvious gays" and the state gaze: Cuban gay visibility and U.S. immigration policy during the 1980 Mariel boatlift.
September 1, 2007... ON THE DAY ARMANDO WENT to the police station to ask for permission to leave Cuba, he wore the gayest outfit he could find. (1) Having been dissuaded from a career in teaching because he was too "obvious," Armando had experienced firsthand the...