Preface: Marching toward Marriage
1. A Brief History of Chueca and Madrid's Queer Space
2. Lesbian Literary Identities in the Madrid Book Business
3. The New Safita: Andalusia and the Phallic Woman in Plumas de
España
4. Lesbian-Themed Best-Sellers and the Politics of Acceptance
5. Dislocations: Identity and Communication in Cenicienta en
Chueca
6. Popular Lesbian Fiction: Romance, Literature, and
Legislation
Conclusion: Toward Lesbian Visibility
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Jill Robbins is associate professor of Spanish literature and culture at the University of Texas, at Austin.
"With sharp and original analysis, Jill Robbins offers for the
first time a profound investigation of the role of not only the
formation of an urban gay community, but also of the participation
of a local gay/lesbian bookstore on the visibility of lesbian
culture and experience in Spain." —Inmaculada Pertusa, coeditor of
Tortilleras: Latina Lesbians
"Reflecting a deep and insightful grasp of Spanish queer studies,
Crossing through Chueca focuses on the increasingly globalized
queer identity and book market in Spain, examining the changing
publishing trends of the 1990s and its relationship to women
writers." —Tatjana Pavlovic, author of The Mobile Nation
(1954-1964): España cambia de piel
"Crossing through Chueca is a historically grounded, theoretically
agile, and politically engaged exploration of a place and time
marked as much by the triumphant rhetoric of democratic
consolidation as by the troubling persistence of repressive
tolerance." —Brad Epps, professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard
University
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