... 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” at the...

...Jennifer Terry “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 category that is, remains an...

...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...

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

... 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...

... 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...

... : 1009 – 14 . Steinbock Eliza Szczygielska Marianna Wagner Anthony , eds. 2017 . “ Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Animal and Trans* Studies .” Special issue , Angelaki 22 , no. 2 . Terry Jennifer . 2000 . “ ‘Unnatural Acts’ in Nature: The Scientific Fascination...

... Metamorphoses emphasizes the unnaturalness of Iphis’s love: Herself a Mayden with a Mayd (ryght straunge) in love became. Shee scarce could stay her teares. What end remaynes for mee (quoth shee) How straunge a love? How...

... political economy 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...

... passage, in the Early Modern period such a juxtaposition would in fact have made a certain sense, as the cohabitation of sodomites and usurers in the seventh circle of Dante’s Inferno demonstrates. For by using the Aristotelian claim that both usury and sodomy constituted “unnatural breeding...

... of literature 48 , no. 1 : 83 – 98 . Brody Jennifer DeVere . 2003 . “ Queering Racial Reproduction: ‘Unnatural Acts’ in Angelina Weld Grimké’s ‘The Closing Door’ .” Text and Performance Quarterly 22 , no. 2 : 205 – 23 . Brown Wilmette . 1976a . “ The Autonomy of Black...

... medi- ated by affect, in this essay I compare several late-­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...

... lerms of the dichotomies that were meaningful to them: natural versus artificial, natural versus preternatural, 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...

... “unnatural,” “base,” “unfruitful,” and “impious” (227). In addition, he says that the extravagant architectural orna- ments of the city’s buildings and bridges “embodied the type of the evil spirit to which Venice was abandoned in . . . the last period of the Renaissance”: they are, as he puts it...

... panelists’ table. The jacket had 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...

... unnatural. It is how I grew up—a natural part of my life in prison.” As a result, it was difficult for Abbott “to grasp the definition of the clinical term ‘homosexual when he did, “it devastated me.”8 Struck by the dissonance between the sexual culture behind bars that...

... the more grown girls to sleep with the younger pupils, 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...

... Article 334 of the penal 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...

... exploring what the sexually conventional may share yet disavow.”24 The very unreasonableness of homoerotic love, with its powerful spiritual claims, its intense concern with beauty, natural and human, and its prob- lematic physical expression, gave an added resonance to unnatural love in fin de siècle...

... a diverse group of nonprocreative sexual practices. In subsequent Latin theology, canon law, and confessional practice, the term was notoriously confused with “unnatural acts,” which had a very different origin and ranged even more widely (to include, for example, procreative...