"A historical biography of Don Antonio Yta, denounced in 1803 as a woman masquerading as a man. Examines the sex/gender complex within the Spanish Atlantic empire"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : exposure -- Confession : self-fashioning and the involuntary autobiography -- Habits : María's apprenticeships in a cross-dressing culture -- Passages : the passing privileges of Don Antonio's sartorial modernity in América -- Means and ends : zenith and nadir of a social climber -- Afterlives : alternative emplotments of Don Antonio's literary lives -- Truth : "true sex," passing, and the consequences of deception -- Conclusion : narrations, enactments, and bodily pleasure.
