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Passing to América: Antonio (Née MarÃa) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire
Hardcover
General World HistorySouth American HistorySpainish & Portuguese History
ISBN13: 9780271081182
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husband of more than four years, Don Antonio Yta, as a woman in disguise. Forced to submit to a medical inspection that revealed a woman's body, Don Antonio confessed to having been MarÃa Yta, but continued to assert his maleness and claimed to have a functional member that appeared, he said, when necessary.
Passing to América is at once a historical biography and an in-depth examination of the sex/gender complex in an era before gender had been divorced from sex. The book presents readers with the original court docket, including Don Antonio's extended confession, in which he tells his life story, and the equally extraordinary biographical sketch offered by Felipa Ybañez of her son MarÃa, both in English translation and the original Spanish. Thomas A. Abercrombie's analysis not only grapples with how to understand the sex/gender system within the Spanish Atlantic empire at the turn of the nineteenth century but also explores what Antonio/MarÃa and contemporaries can teach us about the complexities of the relationship between sex and gender today.
Passing to América brings to light a previously obscure case of gender transgression and puts Don Antonio's life into its social and historical context in order to explore the meaning of trans identity in Spain and its American colonies. This accessible and intriguing study provides new insight into historical and contemporary gender construction that will interest students and scholars of gender studies and colonial Spanish literature and history.
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)--a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses and the Association of Research Libraries--and the generous support of New York University. Learn more at the TOME website: openmonographs.org.
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