By Sherry Velasco
During this first in-depth research of woman homosexuality within the Spanish Empire for the interval from 1500 to 1800, Velasco provides a mess of riveting examples that exhibit frequent modern curiosity in women's intimate relatives with different girls. Her assets contain literary and old texts that includes lady homoeroticism, tracts on convent existence, scientific treatises, civil and Inquisitional circumstances, and dramas. She has additionally exposed a couple of revealing illustrations from the period.
The girls in those debts, tales, and circumstances diversity from the world over well-known transgendered celebrities to lesbian criminals, from these suspected of ''special friendships'' within the convent to dull villagers.
Velasco argues that the various and recurrent representations of lesbian hope supply compelling proof of ways diverse teams perceived intimacy among ladies as greater than simply particular intercourse acts. every now and then those narratives describe advanced own relationships and sometimes symbolize those girls as being of a definite ''type,'' suggesting an early glossy precursor to what may later be famous as divergent lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities
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She too had married a woman, and she had worn an artificial penis made of lambskin, which she had also used during sexual Â�relations with other women. 2 These brief references to female sodomy raise questions about perceptions of same-sex relations between women in early modern Spain. Were the wives and other female lovers aware of the biological sex of their “husband” or lover? If so, do these cases suggest that when a same-sex couple was investigated, only the woman accused of playing the role of a man would be proseÂ� cuted while her partner (claiming ignorance) would be seen as the victim of a predatory and deceptive lesbian?
Yet to know this or to be ignorant of it must not be thought a thing of no importance or idle curiosity. ╯But how a female can copulate with a female, by rubbing each other together, so that, on one hand, they may be said to commit Sodomy, whilst on the other hand, by rubbing each other in a similar way, they may be considered to perform only pollution: that’s the question! ╯There is no probability in this opinion. ╯If therefore both women are stretched, one, for instance, over the other, it is impossible for the seed of her on the top to be injected into, or enter the vase of the one under her.
Furthermore, the text claims that the woman employing the concoction would need to be tricked into doing so, thus implying that the same-sex relations would not normally be consensual: “The woman is tricked into carrying this dirham weight [of drugs] so that it will lead to the described situation of excitement and passion for six months” (211). The implied but not visible figure in this section is the predatory lesbian who employs chemistry to force her love interest into same-sex relations against her will.