Female sexual transgressions according to the inquisitorial processes of sodomy (1591-1639)
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https://doi.org/10.14195/0870-4112_3-7_9Keywords:
Court of the Holy Office, Lisbon, Modernity, Sodomy, WomenAbstract
Modern Portuguese society fixed on a Jewish-Christian matrix has established a heteronormative sexual model, which was only acceptable within marriage. The Court of the Holy Office was one of the institutions that punished sexual dissidences such as sodomy. We resort to exceptional cases of women who deviated from the normative model of femininity of that time, having committed the crimes of sodomy foeminarum and heterosexual sodomy, condemned by the Lisbon Inquisition between 1591 and 1639. This documentation is essential to understand the inquisitorial perception and positioning about female sexual deviations, in addition to configuring notable cases of sexual transgression in a society that repressed sexual practices that did not have the sole purpose of procreation.
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