...Jennifer Terry Duke University Press 2000 “UNNATURAL ACTS” IN NATURE The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals Jennifer Terry Nature is a topic of public discourse on which much turns, even the earth. . . . In the United States, storytelling about nature, whatever problematic...

... administration affect the political ecology of an entire archipelago? What insights can be gained by opening a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of political ecology and LGBTQ studies? This essay examines such questions through a late-nineteenth-century crackdown on “unnatural offences...

...Deborah A. Miranda Prior to contact with Europeans, California Indigenous peoples maintained a culture of three genders: male, female, and joya . Spanish missionaries and soldiers, however, viewed joyas as practicing “the execrable, unnatural abuse of their bodies” and reported that “we place our...

... sodomy as the interiorized truth of the prisoner's self, it instead helped shift the imagination of Indian “unnatural vice” from repeated criminality to a racialized collective notion of habitual excess. Finally, I will document how the state prevented the circulation of Mulvany's evidence, anticipating...

...-­colonial Mexican archivizations of “unnatural” desires and sex acts, paying attention to how bodies and desires are archived, and to how archivists and scholars interact with those archivizations. As part of the project of interrogating how sexuality enters the archive in a con...

..., and natural versus unnatural. In these dichotomies, and more generally, the natural was usually the normative. In this section, we shall argue that although early modern writers planted hermaphrodites firmly on the natural side of the natural/supernatural divide, their location within the oppositions...

... to the maiden Ianthe. Both girls are deeply in love with each other. Nonetheless, Iphis cannot see her way toward marriage. Arthur Golding’s 1567 verse translation of the Metamorphoses emphasizes the unnaturalness of Iphis’s love: Herself a Mayden...

...Ramón A. Gutiérrez Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America Tortorici Zeb , ed. Oakland : University of California Press , 2016 . xiv + 239 pp. ...

... subjects” of medieval art were “perverted into feeble sensualities,” and the new artistic style was “polluted,” “prurient,” and “besotted.” For Ruskin, it is ultimately Venetian architecture that best demonstrates the “perversion” typical of the Renaissance: he describes it as being “unnatural...

.... For by using the Aristotelian claim that both usury and sodomy constituted “unnatural breeding,” Renaissance theories about sodomy proposed a link between these two otherwise unrelated terms. The issue for Aristotle is that breeding like from like, “money from money,” is LL unnatural,” since...

... he was incarcerated about his relations in prison: “I took it, without reflection or the slightest doubt, that this was a natural sex that emerged within the society of men. . . . it never occurred to any of us that this was strange and unnatural. It is how I grew up...

... of heterosexuality, sexual hierar- chies, and sex law that portion out “natural” forms of heterosexuality from the “unnatural,” and moral panics that selectively mobilize and direct public atten- tion and outrage to particular forms of sexual danger while ignoring others.1 The tools offered in “Thinking Sex...

..., this theory of lewdness is often carried on to a species of unnatural practice, by which, though unknown to man, they enter into life without that important requisite to which mankind are so much and so laudably attached” (16). As in Cleland’s Memoirs and other male pornography, the “unnat- ural practice...

... handcuffs on the left shoulder, rainbow freedom rings on the right side lacings, and Queer Nation-style stickers reading SEX CHANGE, DYKE, and FUCK YOUR TRANSPHOBIA plastered on the back. The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science...

... Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (1998). George E. Haggerty is professor of English and LGBT studies at the University of California, Riverside, and is author, most recently, of Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century...

..., and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 540 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES George E. Haggerty is professor and chair of English and LGBTI studies at the Uni- versity of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (1989), Unnatural Affections...

... were acquiring mannish looks and habits — during the war and in the postwar era — was hotly debated in most national newspapers and magazines, but commentators on the mannish or masculine woman were less likely to regard her as unnatural or abnormal than to applaud...

... code to provide for a fine and a prison term of six months to three years for anyone who, “to satisfy his own passions, commits one or several shameless or unnatural acts with a minor of his own sex under the age of twenty-one.” This made it possible to prosecute individuals...

... physical expression, gave an added resonance to unnatural love in fin de siècle narratives. Lee’s horror stories explore what happens when desire for the beloved shifts from a nostalgic memory into a craving for possession. In her personal life, she used nostalgia to shape and preserve past loves...

... cases . . . more lovely and alluring that they blossomed thus unnaturally, Paul reimagines life in its queerest forms, which is to say as something in con ict with the aggressive hetero- capitalist prescriptions for materially and culturally rewarded modes of existence that otherwise surround him (245...