Maricas : queer cultures and state violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942-1982 / Javier Fernández-Galeano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernández-Galeano, Javier, author.

Series:

Engendering Latin America.

Engendering Latin America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Argentina--History.

Homosexuality.

Homosexuality--Spain--History.

Sexual minorities--Argentina--History.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Argentina.

Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Spain.

Sexual minorities--Spain--History.

Sexual minority culture--Argentina--History.

Sexual minority culture.

Sexual minority culture--Spain--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 307 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In Maricas Javier Fernández-Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender- and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. In both countries, agents of the state, judiciary, and medical communities employed “social danger” theory to measure individuals’ latent criminality, conflating sexual and gender nonconformity with legal transgression.Argentine and Spanish queer and trans communities rejected this mode of external categorization. Drawing on Catholicism and camp cultures that stretched across the Atlantic, these communities constructed alternative models of identification that remediated state repression and sexual violence through the pursuit of the sublime, be it erotic, religious, or cultural. In this pursuit they drew ideological and iconographic material from the very institutions that were most antagonistic to their existence, including the Catholic Church, the military, and reactionary mass media. Maricas incorporates non-elite actors, including working-class and rural populations, recruits, prisoners, folk music fans, and defendants’ mothers, among others. The first English-language monograph on the history of twentieth-century state policies and queer cultures in Argentina and Spain, Maricas demonstrates the many ways queer communities and individuals in Argentina and Spain fought against violence, rejected pathologization, and contested imposed, denigrating categorization."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Anti-Marica discourses and praxis

1. Forensic sexual violence

2. The tacky and the sublime

Part 2. The erotics of masculinity

3. Exotic lubrications

4. "People don't know what a homosexual is"

Part 3. Marica politics

5. Travesti and Marica prisoners

6. From inverse to converging paths

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496239839 9electronic book)

1496239830

9781496239822

1496239822

OCLC:

1434027147