TY - BOOK ID - 3388864 TI - Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal PY - 2012 VL - 47 SN - 9789004225299 9004225293 9789004232785 9004232788 128360213X 9786613914583 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Transgenderism KW - Transgender people KW - Gender identity KW - Inquisition KW - History. KW - Gender identity -- Portugal -- History. KW - Gender identity -- Spain -- History. KW - Inquisition -- Portugal -- History. KW - Inquisition -- Spain -- History. KW - Transgender people -- Portugual -- History. KW - Transgender people -- Spain -- History. KW - Transgenderism -- Portugal -- History. KW - Transgenderism -- Spain -- History. KW - Identification (Psychology) KW - Psychosexual Development KW - Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological KW - History, Early Modern 1451-1600 KW - Religion KW - History, Modern 1601 KW - -Psychoanalytic Theory KW - History KW - Defense Mechanisms KW - Personality Development KW - Humanities KW - Sexual and Gender Disorders KW - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms KW - Personality KW - Mental Disorders KW - Psychological Theory KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Gender Identity KW - History, 17th Century KW - History, 18th Century KW - History, 16th Century KW - Religion and Sex KW - Transsexualism KW - Gender & Ethnic Studies KW - Social Sciences KW - Gender Studies & Sexuality KW - Gender nonconformity -- Portugal -- History. KW - Gender nonconformity -- Spain -- History. KW - Gender nonconformity KW - Gender variance (Gender nonconformity) KW - Genderqueer KW - Non-binary gender KW - TGNC (Transgender and gender nonconformity) KW - TG people KW - TGs (Transgender people) KW - Trans-identified people KW - Trans people KW - Transgender-identified people KW - Transgendered people KW - Transgenders KW - Transpeople KW - Holy Office KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Gender expression KW - Sexual minorities KW - Autos-da-fé KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Persons KW - Gender dysphoria UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3388864 AB - From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions conducted a number of trials against individuals accused by members of their communities of being of the other gender – men accused of being women and women accused of being men – or even hermaphrodites. Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World. It throws light upon the manner in which the Inquisition, medical practitioners and the wider society in Spain and Portugal responded to transgenderism and on the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted these social and sexual conventions. ER -