The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar: Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America - Paperback
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The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar: Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America
In 1792 in rural San Salvador, Juana Aguilar was accused of committing what the authorities called a "heinous" crime. Aguilar was suspected of being a "hermaphrodite," and while this in and of itself was not a crime, determining Aguilar's sex would resolve whether the relationships Aguilar had with women were criminal. Aguilar's possessions were confiscated, the accused was placed in jail, and a...
Sylvia Sellers-García is Professor of History and Director of the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College. She is the author of The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts and Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery and coeditor of Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America: Synoptic Methods and Practices.
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