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 contemporary
interest in women's intimate relations with other women. Her
sources include literary and historical texts featuring female
homoeroticism, tracts on convent life, medical treatises, civil and
Inquisitional cases, and dramas. She has also uncovered a number of
revealing illustrations from the period.
The women in these accounts, stories, and cases range from
internationally famous transgendered celebrities to lesbian
criminals, from those suspected of "special friendships" in the
convent to ordinary villagers.
Velasco argues that the diverse and recurrent representations of
lesbian desire provide compelling evidence of how different groups
perceived intimacy between women as more than just specific sex
acts. At times these narratives describe complex personal
relationships and occasionally characterize these women as being of
a certain "type," suggesting an early modern precursor to what
would later be recognized as divergent lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender identities.
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