List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Transcription and Translation Searching for the Moon Goddess To Desire the Moon Goddess Sexual Desire Colonial Maya Sexual Acts Colonial Maya Sexual Ideas The Historian's Method Religion and Family Religion Family Revisiting Hybridity Framing Maya Sexual Desire Defining the Hybrid Cultural Matrix Sex,Gender,and War Colonizing Sin Performing the Hybrid Fornicating with Priests, Communicating with Gods Having Sex in a Church Strategic Inversions Excess Sex: Adultery, Rape, and the Commoners Thinking of Sex The Unvirgin Virgin The Moon Goddess The Appearance of the Virgin Mary The Moon Goddess and the Virgin The Language of Virginity The Resilience of the Moon Goddess Gender, Lineage, and the Blood of the Rulers Bodies of Kings The Blood of the Name Blood, Naming,and Masculinity Blood, Semen, and Ritual Blood of the Vagina Blood of the Penis Phallic Motions and Transsexual Bodies Gendered Blood and Transsexual Bodies Transsexuality and the Floating Phallus The Phallus without a Body Transsexuality Colonialism, Oedipus, and the Floating Phallus Ritualized Bisexuality Sodomites, Homosexuals, Bisexuals Activity and Passivity Pedagogy, Pederasty,and Political Power Sexual Control Finding the Virgin Mary Sexual Acts, Symbols, and Desires Theorizing Hybridity and Sexuality Notes Abbreviations Bibliography Index

"This is a bold, fascinating, often highly original contribution to the field of Maya studies, and Maya colonial ethnohistory in particular... Because of its subject matter, it will appeal to both specialists in Latin American history and academic and non-academic readers interested in the study of sexuality." -Susan Kellogg, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston

This is a bold, fascinating, often highly original contribution to the field of Maya studies, and Maya colonial ethnohistory in particular.... Because of its subject matter, it will appeal to both specialists in Latin American history and academic and non-academic readers interested in the study of sexuality.

"This is a bold, fascinating, often highly original contribution to the field of Maya studies, and Maya colonial ethnohistory in particular... Because of its subject matter, it will appeal to both specialists in Latin American history and academic and non-academic readers interested in the study of sexuality." -- Susan Kellogg, Associate Professor of History, University of Houston