Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco

Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco

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This in-depth study of female homosexuality in the Spanish Empire for the period from 1500 to 1800 presents a multitude of riveting examples that reveal widespread contemporary interest in women's intimate relations with other women. Sources include literary and historical texts featuring female homoeroticism, tracts on convent life, medical treatises, civil and Inquisitional cases, and dramas.

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Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco

This in-depth study of female homosexuality in the Spanish Empire for the period from 1500 to 1800 presents a multitude of riveting examples that reveal widespread contemporary interest in women's intimate relations with other women. Sources include literary and historical texts featuring female homoeroticism, tracts on convent life, medical treatises, civil and Inquisitional cases, and dramas.
Velasco, Sherry: - Sherry Velasco is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California. She is the author of three other books, including Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain, also published by Vanderbilt.
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ISBN 13 9780826517500
ISBN 10 0826517501
Title Lesbians in Early Modern Spain
Author Sherry Velasco
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
Year published 2011-05-01
Number of pages 296
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