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14 But both D'Emilio and Weeks proceed from what they assume to be a known and invariant category (production) in order to illuminate what is, from this perspective, unknown and contingent (sexuality). Thus, while we have begun to appreciate how class impinges upon sexual formations, we still have nothing resembling what might be called a sex-inflected analysis of class formations (indeed, this reversal of terms doesn't Unthinking Sex 23 make any kind of customary sense). Yet if feminist readings have found insistent figurations of gender in Marx's writing even — or especially— when the relation of men to women is not his explicitly thematized concern, this strategy might be borrowed in the interest of performing a sexual reading of Marx's texts, a reading that could map the (de)structuring effects of eroticism even — or especially — in works whose subjects seem utterly unsexy.
99 for Zarate (1555); p. 131 for Juan López de Velasco (1574); pp. 141-42 for Pedro Gutiérrez de Santa Clara (c. 1580); p. 155 for Antonio de Herrera (1601), who dates the story to 1527. Sodomy in the New World 17 10. See Ramón A. " Out/Look 1 (1989): 61-67. Gutiérrez distorts his evidence (fetched from Guerra, among other sources); the "fact" of cross-dressing as humiliation is not the only "native" practice. As the Balboa account suggests, it may moreover, in some instances, represent a Europeanization of natives.
S. Supreme Court;4 moreover, as we will see, they can be found as well in the supposedly more enlightened domains of the academy. What Balboa saw continues to haunt the anthropological literature. Here is the scene in Peter Martyr: [Balboa] founde the house of this kynge infected with most abhominable and unnaturall lechery. For he founde the kynges brother and many other younge men in womens apparell, smoth & effeminately decked, which by the report of such as dwelte abowte hym, he abused with preposterous venus.