{"product_id":"crossing-through-chueca-lesbian-literary-culture-in-queer-madrid-paperback-softback-9780816669905","title":"Crossing Through Chueca; Lesbian Literary Culture in Queer Madrid (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816669905","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCrossing Through Chueca\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLesbian Literary Culture in Queer Madrid\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJill Robbins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816669905\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 June 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.148 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With sharp and original analysis, Jill Robbins offers for the first time a profound investigation of the role of not only the formation of an urban gay community, but also of the participation of a local gay\/lesbian bookstore on the visibility of lesbian culture and experience in Spain.\" -Inmaculada Pertusa, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTortilleras: Latina Lesbians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reflecting a deep and insightful grasp of Spanish queer studies, \u003ci\u003eCrossing through Chueca\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the increasingly globalized queer identity and book market in Spain, examining the changing publishing trends of the 1990s and its relationship to women writers.\" -Tatjana Pavlovic, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mobile Nation (1954-1964): EspaÑa cambia de piel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCrossing through Chueca \u003c\/i\u003eis a historically grounded, theoretically agile, and politically engaged exploration of a place and time marked as much by the triumphant rhetoric of democratic consolidation as by the troubling persistence of repressive tolerance.\" -Brad Epps, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn the past two decades the city of Madrid has been marked by pride, feminism, and globalization-but also by the vestiges of the machismo nurtured during the long years of the Franco dictatorship. \u003ci\u003eCrossing through Chueca\u003c\/i\u003e examines how lesbian literary culture fares in this mix from the end of the countercultural movement la movida madrileÑa in 1988 until the gay marriage march in 2005.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eJill Robbins traverses the various literary spaces of the city associated with queer culture, in particular the gay barrio of Chueca, revealing how it is a product of interrelations-a site crisscrossed by a multiplicity of subjects who constitute it as a queer space through the negotiation of their sexual, racial, gender, and class identities. Robbins recognizes Chueca as a political space as well, a refuge from homophobia. She also shows how the spatial and literary practices of Chueca relate to economic issues.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn examining how women’s sexual identities have become visible in and through the Chueca phenomenon, this work is a revealing example of transnational queer studies within the broader Western discussion on gender and sexuality.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface: Marching toward Marriage\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Brief History of Chueca and Madrid's Queer Space\u003cbr\u003e 2. Lesbian Literary Identities in the Madrid Book Business\u003cbr\u003e 3. The New Safita: Andalusia and the Phallic Woman in \u003ci\u003ePlumas de España\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lesbian-Themed Best-Sellers and the Politics of Acceptance\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dislocations: Identity and Communication in \u003ci\u003eCenicienta en Chueca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Popular Lesbian Fiction: Romance, Literature, and Legislation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Toward Lesbian Visibility\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570078544152,"sku":"9780816669905","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/crossing-through-chueca-lesbian-literary-culture-in-queer-madrid-paperback-softback-9780816669905","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}