Invisibles : A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940 / Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vázquez García.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleminson, Richard, author.

García, Francisco Vázquez, author.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Male homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Other Title:

Invisibles

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2007.

Summary:

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. 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.

Contents:

Scries Editors'

Foreword Acknowledgements

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Birth of the 'Invert': a Truncated Process of Medicalization

Chapter Three: The Serological Context, 1915-1939: Sexual Inversion, Maranon's 'Intcrscxualiiy' and the 'Social Dangerousness' of the Homosexual

Chapter Four: 'Quicn Con Ninos se Junta': Childhood and the Spectre of Homocrastia

Chapter Five: 'In Search of Men': Regeneraaonismo and ihe Crisis of Masculinity (1898-1936)

Chapter Six: Homosexual Subcultures in Spain: the Intersection of Medicine, Politics and Identity

Chapter Seven: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.