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Marqués de Careaga, Gutierre (1588-1652) Invectiva en Discursos Apologéticos. Contra el Abuso de las Guedejas.
Madrid: Por Maria de Quiñones, a costa de Pedro Coello, 1637.
First edition, octavo, bound in full modern period-appropriate sponge-decorated sheepskin, gilt tooled spine, with neat marginal paper repairs, any letters lost supplied in very good pen facsimile, rare, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
[Together with] Pregon en que su Magestad Manda, que por Quanto el Abuso de las Guedejas y Copetes con que andan Algunos Hombres, y los Rizos con que Componen el Cabello ha Llegado a Hazer Escandalo en Estos Reynos, ningun Hombre Pueda Traer Guedejas ni Copete, Sevilla: Francisco de Lyra, 1639, single folio leaf broadside bound in marbled paper boards, 12 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Both works rail against men who wear their long hair in elaborate styles. Don Gutierre complains that they "occupy all their senses in curling their hair, tying it up with ribbons or forcing it into the proper shape with irons." The underlying theme is homophobia. "The effemininate man was also frequently attacked by Golden Age ecclesiastics and moralists. They felt that excessive 'feminity' in dress and personal care was an indication of latent, if not patent, homosexuality. As a consequence, numerous laws were promulgated during the 17th century to curb excesses in male dress, jewelry, cosmetics and long hair." (Quoted from Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies, ed. Anne J. Cruz & Carroll B. Johnson, Garland, 1999.)
