Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture

Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish CultureOffers a sustained analysis of both high and low queer culture and its connections to cultural and political processes in Spain. Gema Prez Snchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self loathing "homosexual" model to a democracy that identified as a pluralized "queer" body. Focusing on the urban cultural phenomenon

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Kaufman synthesizes object relations theory

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