Los Invisibles - A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940

Klappentext Gender studies of Spain has thus far focused almost exclusively on women! leaving the social and political history of male homosexuality virtually untouched. "'Los Invisibles'" fills this significant gap in the study of Spanish culture by analyzing the effects of medical and legal regulation on male homosexuals. Drawing from the discourse of medical history! Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vazquez Garcia evaluate the impact of psychiatry! education! race! and the growth of gay subcultures on cultural representations of homosexuality in this pioneering study. Zusammenfassung Examining the social! medical and cultural history of male homosexuality in Spain! this book looks at it from the time homosexuality came to be an issue of medical! legal and cultural concern.

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• Authors: Richard Cleminson, Richard Garcia Cleminson, CLEMINSON RICHARD GARCIA FRANCIS, Francisco Vasquez Garcia, Francisco Vazquez Garcia
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2007
• EAN: 9780708320129
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2012-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: University of Wales - Iberian; Iberian and Latin American Studies; Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history