Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition

This volume proposes an investigation of the cultural representations/intersections of masculinities and sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, and transgenders) in Spain between the passing of the Law of Social Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) and the reform of the Penal Code in 1995. In order to meet this aim, it analyzes the artistic production of a number of Spanish and Latin American male and female individuals who, first, were able to question the structures of control and domination in Spain in the last years of Franco's dictatorship; second, were able to open up new horizons of freedom in the context of the criminalization of the previous decades; and, third, were able to bring about new models of masculinity that were more egalitarian during the first years of a new democracy. More specifically, Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition will interlink the fields of political and historical change and artistic production in order to assess whether cultural representations can be understood as mere reflections of social and political change. In terms of the materials being examined, these are, in the first instance, literary, although other narratives are also addressed (filmic production and plastic arts).

Introduction: Hispanic/Masculinities/Transition: An Introduction, Dieter Ingenschay   1

1. Sexual Movements Without Sex? Sex-Talk in the Spanish Gay Liberation Movement, Kerman Calvo   13

2. Butches Excluded: Female Masculinities and Their (non) Representations in Spain, Gracia Trujillo   31

3. Bodily, Gender, and Identity Projects in Spain: From the Transvestite to the Transsexual, Óscar Guasch & Jordi Mas   51

4. Embodiments of Class and Nation in Eloy de la Iglesia's Gay Films, Alfredo Martínez-Expósito   65

5. Queer Pastoral: Rural Homoeroticism on Film during the Early Years of the Spanish Transition, Alberto Mira   81

6. From Stage to Screen: Flor de Otoño's Transitional Impersonations, Rafael M. Mérida-Jimenez   101

7. Undressing Masculinity: Male Dress and Accoutrements in Four Female Spanish Characters, Elena Madrigal-Rodríguez   117

8. Machos or divinas? A Quandary in Argentinean and Spanish Gay Activism, Jorge Luis Peralta   137

9. Demasculinizing: Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity in Spanish Art and Culture, Juan Vicente Aliaga   159

10. Female Masculinity on Stage: Young Man! and the Subversion of Gender Roles, Richard Cleminson & Carlos Pons   177