Title Passing to América : Antonio (née María) Yta's transgressive, transatlantic life in the twilight of the Spanish empire / Thomas A. Abercrombie.

Publication Info.	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
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Description	1 online resource (xxiv, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps
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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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Yta, Antonio, 1770 or 1771-
	Gender-nonconforming people -- Bolivia -- Biography.
	Gender-nonconforming people -- Spain -- Biography.
	Gender nonconformity -- Bolivia -- History -- 19th century.
	Gender nonconformity -- Spain -- History -- 19th century.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
	Gender-nonconforming people. (OCoLC)fst01985432
	Gender nonconformity. (OCoLC)fst01765240
	Bolivia. (OCoLC)fst01205549
	Spain. (OCoLC)fst01204303
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Pennsylvania State University Press, publisher.
Other Form:	Print version: Abercrombie, Thomas Alan, 1951- Passing to América. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] 9780271081182 (DLC) 2018026634 (OCoLC)1034562391
ISBN	9780271082790 (electronic book)
	0271082798 (electronic book)
	9780271082813 (electronic book)
	027108281X (electronic book)

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