NovaCat - NSU Libraries Catalog user info Skip the menu to the main content
     

Cover for {{ rc.info.title }}

{{rc.info.title}}

{{ rc.info.subtitle }}

{{ rc.info.author }}

{{ rc.info.edition }}

{{ rc.info.publisher }} {{ rc.info.year }}

Summary

{{rc.info.summary}} {{rc.info.summaryMore}}

Location Call # Volume Status
 E-BOOK      
LINK(S):
Available via Books at JSTOR: Open Access; click here for access
Local access for all registered users. Remote access only for NSU.
Author Abercrombie, Thomas Alan, 1951- author.
Title Passing to América : Antonio (née María) Yta's transgressive, transatlantic life in the twilight of the Spanish empire / Thomas A. Abercrombie.
OCLC on1078149448
ISBN 9780271082790 (electronic bk.)
0271082798 (electronic bk.)
9780271082813 (electronic bk.)
027108281X (electronic bk.)
9780271081182
027108118X
Publisher University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
©2018
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps
LC Subject heading/s Yta, Antonio, 1770 or 1771-
Children's
Subject heading/s		 Yta, Antonio, 1770 or 1771-
LC Subject heading/s Gender-nonconforming people -- Bolivia -- Biography.
Gender-nonconforming people -- Spain -- Biography.
Gender nonconformity -- Bolivia -- History -- 19th century.
Gender nonconformity -- Spain -- History -- 19th century.
Other
Genre heading/s		 Electronic books
Summary "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.
Source of Description Print version record.
NOTE JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Permanent link back to this item
https://novacat.nova.edu:446/record=b4321458~S13

Use classic NovaCat |