To Cross the Sexual Borderlands: The History of Sexuality in the Americas

Pete Sigal is professor of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. His research and teaching focus on the history of sexuality, Latin American history, and the relationship between colonialism and sexual pleasure. He is author of The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture (Duke University Press, 2011), a study on the interaction of writing and sexual representation in sixteenth and seventeenth-century indigenous Nahua