“Lack of Clarity” and “False Premises”: Partnership and Translations in Impotence-Related Petitions for Marriage Annulment in Nineteenth-Century Spain (2021)
Marie Walin (Author)
Alain Giami (Editor)
Sharman Levinson (Editor)
Springer International Publishing
Pages: 153-168
Publication date: 2021
Language: English
This paper aims to describe the evolution of the power relationship between the church and medicine in the definition of “normal” sexual behaviors and identities in Spain during the nineteenth century. It is based on the analysis of cases of impotence-related petitions for marriage annulment. In these petitions, it was necessary for the church and medicine to cooperate. The evolution of the vocabulary used in the archives, and of the causes attributed to absolute sexual impotence, proves the effort made by these two entities to work together, but also underlines a reversal of the traditional relationships of power between religion and science during the nineteenth century. However, it also shows how the conception of a normal sexuality remained based on Catholic morality, and on maintaining dominant gender identities and behaviors.
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