{"product_id":"sex-drugs-and-fashion-in-1970s-madrid-hardback-9781487501488","title":"Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid (Hardback) 9781487501488","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrancisco Fernandez de Alba (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487501488\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 8 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.4 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\"\u003cem\u003eSex, Drugs, and Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e expertly rewrites social history in the 1970s and offers a new and earlier context for the overfamiliar \u003cem\u003emovida\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - Paul Julian Smith, CUNY Graduate Center (\u003cem\u003eRevista Hispánica Moderna\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the last decade of Franco\u0026amp;#x2019;s repressive rule, the Spanish outlook on sex, drugs, and fashion shifted dramatically, creating a favourable cultural environment for the return of democracy. Exploring\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003echanges in\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eurban planning, narratives of sexual and gender identity, recreational drug use, and fashion design during the seventies, \u003ci\u003eSex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid\u003c\/i\u003e argues that it was during this decade that the material and emotional conditions for the groundbreaking transition to democracy first began to develop.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThanks in part to a mass media saturated with international trends, citizens of Madrid began to adopt practices, behaviours, and attitudes that would ultimately render Franco\u0026amp;#x2019;s military dictatorship obsolete. This cultural history examines these modest but irreversible changes in the way people lived and thought about their lives during the last decade of the regime\u0026amp;#x2019;s creed. Not a revolution necessarily, but transformational nevertheless, these changes in collective sensibility eased the political transition to democracy and the emergence of the 1980s\u0026amp;#x2019; cultural movement \u003ci\u003ela Movida\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction. 1970s Madrid: The Dawn of a New Sensibility\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Madrid: Planning the Democratic City\u003cbr\u003e2. Sex: Building Plural Communities\u003cbr\u003e3. Drugs: The Burden of Modernity\u003cbr\u003e4. Fashion: Democracy Prêt-à-Porter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Legacies of the 1970s: The Origins of \u003cem\u003ela Movida\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595449561368,"sku":"9781487501488","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sex-drugs-and-fashion-in-1970s-madrid-hardback-9781487501488","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}