Sex and the Colonial Archive: The Case of "Mariano" Aguilera.

Building on recent scholarship that has problematized the evidentiary status of archived sources and created new methods and analytical categories for reading sex and gender in those sources, this essay considers the case of Mariano Aguilera from mid-eighteenth-century New Spain. Raised as a girl, A...

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Published in:	Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. 421 - 444
Main Author:	Martínez, María Elena
Format:	Essay
Published:	Duke University Press Aug2016
Subjects:	Aguilera, Mariano History of New Spain > 18th century Legal status of intersex people Intersex people Gender Religion & gender Sodomy 18th century medical history Eighteenth century History
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