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Los Invisibles
Cleminson, Richard; Garcia, Francisco Vazquez
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Description for Los Invisibles
Hardback. Examining the social, medical and cultural history of male homosexuality in Spain, this book looks at it from the time homosexuality came to be an issue of medical, legal and cultural concern. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 513.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Iberian and Latin American Studies
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Wales, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780708320129
SKU
V9780708320129
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About Cleminson, Richard; Garcia, Francisco Vazquez
Dr. Cleminson is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Leeds. He has previously published books in both English and Spanish for Spanish and UK publishers including Huerga and Fierro and Peter Lang. Prof. Vazquez Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cadiz. He has published widely for various Spanish publishers and university presses. Francisco ... Read more
Reviews for Los Invisibles
'[it] covers ground which is completely untouched in English-language Hispanism or, indeed, in the History of Sexuality generally and which is only very partially covered in specialist, short works in Spanish.' Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Manchester.