Los Invisibles: A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940
By (Author) Richard Cleminson
By (author) Francisco Vsquez Garca
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
23rd August 2007
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
306.7662094609
Hardback
208
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
513g
Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and literary figures, Los Invisibles focuses on the change in cultural representation of same-sex activity of through medicalisation, social and political anxieties about race and the late emergence of homosexual sub-cultures in the last quarter of the twentieth century. As such, this book constitutes an analysis of discourses and ideas from a social history and medical history position. Much of the research for the book was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to research the medicalisation of homosexuality in Spain.
. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
'[it] covers ground which is completely untouched in English-language Hispanism or, indeed, in the History of Sexuality generally and which is only very partially covered in specialist, short works in Spanish.' Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Manchester.
Dr. Cleminson is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Leeds. He has previously published books in both English and Spanish for Spanish and UK publishers including Huerga and Fierro and Peter Lang. Prof. Vazquez Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cadiz. He has published widely for various Spanish publishers and university presses.