Los Invisibles

Richard Cleminson

Description

Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, Los Invisibles focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain.

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Sujets

• Gay Studies
• LGBTQ+ Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• 20th century
• Spain
• Spain (groupe)

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780708324691
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Iberian and Latin American Studies

‘LOS INVISIBLES’

A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1940

RICHARD CLEMINSON and FRANCISCO VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA

University of Wales Press

I BERIAN AND L ATIN A MERICAN S TUDIES

‘Los Invisibles’

Series Editors Professor David George (University of Wales, Swansea) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)

Editorial Board David Frier (University of Leeds) Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool) Gareth Walters (University of Exeter) Rob Stone (University of Wales, Swansea) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham)

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

‘Los

Invisibles’

A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1939

RICHARD CLEMINSON AND FRANCISCO VÁZQUEZ GARCÍA

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS CARDIFF 2007

© Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García, 2007 Reprinted 2011

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ISBN e-ISBN

978–0–7083–2012–9 978–0–7083–2469–1

The rights of Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García to be identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Contents

Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements

vii ix

Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: The Birth of the ‘Invert’: a Truncated Process of Medicalization 29 Chapter Three: The Sexological Context, 1915–1939: Sexual Inversion, Marañón’s ‘Intersexuality’ and the ‘Social Dangerousness’ of the Homosexual 95 Chapter Four: ‘Quien Con Niños se Junta’: Childhood and the Spectre of Homoerastia 137 Chapter Five: ‘In Search of Men’:Regeneracionismoand the Crisis of Masculinity (1898–1936) 175 Chapter Six: Homosexual Subcultures in Spain: the Intersection of Medicine, Politics and Identity 217 Chapter Seven: Conclusion 265 Bibliography 281 Index 305

Series

Editors’

Foreword

Over recent decades, the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superceded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds − categories which extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only to Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa. In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies which explore all aspects ofCultural Production(inter alialiterature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and the indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research on theHistory and Politicsof Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, both at the level of region and that of the nation-state, as well as onCultural Studies which explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.