Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Poltical Order and the European Conquest of the Americas

By Richard C. Trexler

Book Overview

A historical account of the berdache--biological men who performed the offices and work of women, including sexual service--in Europe and America at the time of the Conquest. Trexler examines the sexual culture of both early modern Iberia and the native American world of that era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484820
• ISBN13: 9780801484827
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"