Beschreibung:
Maricas traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction. Marica politics?PART I: Anti-Marica Discourses and Praxis Chapter I. Forensic Sexual Violence: Maricas’ “Deviant” Bodies and Minds Chapter II. The Tacky & the Sublime: Transatlantic Entendido and Marica CulturesPART II: The Erotics of Masculinity Chapter III. “Exotic Lubrications:” Performing Masculinity in Sex Markets Chapter IV. “People Don’t Know What a Homosexual Is:” Argentine Soldiers’ Sexual Culture under Dictatorial RulePART III: Marica Politics Chapter V. Travesti and Marica Prisoners: Clothes, Performance, and Resistance Chapter VI. From Inverse to Converging Paths: Early Sexual Activism in Argentina and Spain Conclusions. Marica Archives and Histories of Emancipation Notes Bibliography Index