{"product_id":"passing-to-america-antonio-nee-maria-ytas-transgressive-transatlantic-life-in-the-twilight-of-the-spanish-empire-paperback","title":"Passing to América: Antonio (Née María) Yta's Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas A. Abercrombie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husband of more than four years, Don Antonio Yta, as a \"woman in disguise.\" Forced to submit to a medical inspection that revealed a woman's body, Don Antonio confessed to having been María Yta, but continued to assert his maleness and claimed to have a functional \"member\" that appeared, he said, when necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePassing to América\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a historical biography and an in-depth examination of the sex\/gender complex in an era before \"gender\" had been divorced from \"sex.\" The book presents readers with the original court docket, including Don Antonio's extended confession, in which he tells his life story, and the equally extraordinary biographical sketch offered by Felipa Ybañez of her \"son María,\" both in English translation and the original Spanish. Thomas A. Abercrombie's analysis not only grapples with how to understand the sex\/gender system within the Spanish Atlantic empire at the turn of the nineteenth century but also explores what Antonio\/María and contemporaries can teach us about the complexities of the relationship between sex and gender today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePassing to América\u003c\/i\u003e brings to light a previously obscure case of gender transgression and puts Don Antonio's life into its social and historical context in order to explore the meaning of \"trans\" identity in Spain and its American colonies. This accessible and intriguing study provides new insight into historical and contemporary gender construction that will interest students and scholars of gender studies and colonial Spanish literature and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)--a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses and the Association of Research Libraries--and the generous support of New York University. Learn more at the TOME website: openmonographs.org.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThomas A. Abercrombie\u003c\/strong\u003e was Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University and the author of \u003ci\u003ePathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53558432465203,"sku":"9780271081199","price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/passing-to-america-antonio-nee-maria-ytas-transgressive-transatlantic-life-in-the-twilight-of-the-spanish-empire-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}