Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World

In this book, 14 scholars from Belgium, Canada, Mozambique, Portugal, the US, and the UK examine the long-term cultural and social environment of sex definition in different continents. The study of medieval and early modern Portugal shows limited rights of women and patriarchal constraints. The impact on gender definition of Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World is analysed with the inclusion of local agency informing indigenous responses. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The use of language and literary representation are part of this research.



Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anast cio, Francisco Bethencourt, Doroth e Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capel o, Maria Judite M rio Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Am lia Pol nia, Ana Maria S. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimar es S , Ana Cristina Santos, and Jo o Silvestre.