{"product_id":"maricas-queer-cultures-and-state-violence-in-argentina-and-spain-1942-1982-hardback-9781496234971","title":"Maricas; Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982 (Hardback) 9781496234971","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaricas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eQueer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJavier Fernández-Galeano (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496234971\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e342 pages, 11 photographs, 7 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.57 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\"FernÁndez-Galeano's book highlights the myriad ways in which queer communities resisted violence, challenged pathologization, and created a vibrant culture. As such, it contributes to a nuanced understanding of LGBTQ+ history in Argentina and Spain.\"-Paula Halperin, \u003ci\u003eAmericas\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaricas\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant work that will be of interest to anyone working on the history of sexuality, comparative and transnational methodologies, visual studies and archival research.\"-Patricio Simonetto, \u003ci\u003eGender \u0026amp; History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A major contribution to queer studies, FernÁndez-Galeano’s dual focus on Argentina and Spain adds an original lens to a subject that is traditionally approached through a national perspective. His creative analysis of a multiplicity of subjects, including tourism, fashion, and military culture, and his smart combination of archives goes beyond state policing and repression to offer a rich understanding of the desires, rules, and aims of queer communities on their own terms.”-Natalia Milanesio, author of \u003ci\u003eDestape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Extremely well researched. . . . The particular methodology and focus of this book make a profound contribution to ongoing developments in the field. . . . The specialist reader will be captivated by this book; the interested reader will find the work revealing.”-Richard Cleminson, coauthor of \u003ci\u003e“Los Invisibles”: A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850–1939\u003c\/i\u003e\n\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\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMaricas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMaricas\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMaricas\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the many ways queer communities and individuals in Argentina and Spain fought against violence, rejected pathologization, and contested imposed, denigrating categorization.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. \u003ci\u003eMarica\u003c\/i\u003e politics?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I\u003c\/b\u003e: Anti-Marica Discourses and Praxis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter I. Forensic Sexual Violence: Maricas’\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eDeviant”\u003cbr\u003e Bodies and Minds\u003cbr\u003e Chapter II. The Tacky \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e the Sublime: Transatlantic Entendido and Marica Cultures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II\u003c\/b\u003e: The Erotics of Masculinity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter III. “\u003cbr\u003eExotic Lubrications:”\u003cbr\u003e Performing Masculinity in Sex Markets\u003cbr\u003e Chapter IV. “\u003cbr\u003ePeople Don’\u003cbr\u003et Know What a Homosexual Is:”\u003cbr\u003e Argentine Soldiers’\u003cbr\u003e Sexual Culture under Dictatorial Rule\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III\u003c\/b\u003e: Marica Politics\u003cbr\u003e Chapter V. Travesti and Marica Prisoners: Clothes, Performance, and Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter VI. From Inverse to Converging Paths: Early Sexual Activism in Argentina and Spain\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions. Marica Archives and Histories of Emancipation\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600260821272,"sku":"9781496234971","price":77.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/maricas-queer-cultures-and-state-violence-in-argentina-and-spain-1942-1982-hardback-9781496234971","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}