Analysis of 16th- and 17th-century Nahua (indigenous) sexuality that shows Nahua commoners asserting a sexual discourse which implicitly and explicitly challenged the Spanish clerical orthodox view on sexuality.

About the Series ix
Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface. The People, the Place, and the Time xv
1. The Bath 1
2. Trash 29
3. Sin 61
4. The Warrior Goddess 103
5. The Phallus and the Broom 139
6. The Homosexual 177
7. Sex 207
8. Mirrors 241
Appendix. The Chalca Woman's Song 255
Abbreviations 263
Notes 265
Bibliography 327
Index 353