Queer obscenity : erotic archives in dictatorial Spain /

Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only censored, eradicated and attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation and even restoration initiatives that have bequeathed us an extensive queer pornographic archive. Javier Fern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fernández-Galeano, Javier (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Gay pornography > Political aspects > Spain > History > 20th century. Gay erotica > Political aspects > Spain > History > 20th century. Homosexuality > Political aspects > Spain > History > 20th century. Obscenity (Law) > Spain > History > 20th century. Censorship > Spain > History > 20th century. Spain > Politics and government > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : reflections in the mirror : the politics of obscenity in twentieth-century Spain
Curators of pornography : scandal and censorship in Primo de Rivera's Spain (1923-1930)
Dildos and lubricant : material culture versus nationalistic rhetoric
"Plastic objects of obscene configuration" : from ordinary to extraordinary legal framings (1950-1975)
Burning the normal, preserving the queer
Running mascara : trans visual archives in the 1970s
"Frosted glass" : the sexual politics of the democratic transition.