In the popular imagination, Islam is often associated with words like oppression,
totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed …

In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in
Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized …

Andean notions of the feminine and the androgyne, ritually represented by third-gender
subjects and analyzed and characterized in Chapters 2 and 3, experienced a transformation …

When a journal (such as GLQ) does a special issue on a topic as hoary as area studies,
there may well be cause for alarm, curiosity, even consternation. One could ask, what is the …

Gema Pérez-Sánchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from
dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship …

1. Compendio de algunas experiencias en los ministerios de que usa la Companía de
Jesus, con que practicamente se muestra con algunos acontecimientos y documentos el …

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty
years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide …

No es la conducta erótica con otro varón lo que hace al individuo ''homosexual'', según este
discurso [vigente en México], sino el gusto de hacerlo, el hecho de que se busque y …

Queen as King traces the origins of San Isidoro in León as a royal monastic complex,
following its progress as the site changed from a small eleventh-century palatine chapel …

In this first in-depth study of female homosexuality in the Spanish Empire for the period from
1500 to 1800, Velasco presents a multitude of riveting examples that reveal widespread …