Infamous desire : male homosexuality in colonial Latin America / edited by Pete Sigal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

(Homo)sexual desire and masculine power in colonial Latin America: notes toward an integrated analysis / Pete Sigal -- Toward an Andean theory of ritual same-sex sexuality and third-gender subjectivity / Michael J. Horswell -- Gender subordination and political hierarchy in pre-Hispanic America / Richard C. Trexler -- Gendered power, the hybrid self, and homosexual desire in late colonial Yucatan / Pete Sigal -- Political "abomination" and private reservation: the nefarious sin, homosexuality, and cultural values in colonial Peru / Ward Stavig -- Tales of two Carmelites: inquisitorial narratives from Portugal and Brazil / David Higgs -- Crypto-sodomites in colonial Brazil / Luiz Mott, translated by Salima Popat -- The ashes of desire: homosexuality in mid-seventeenth-century New Spain / Serge Gruzinski, translated by Ignacio López-Calvo.