Series editors: David George, Professor in the Dept. of Hispanic Studies, Swansea and Paul Garner, Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Leeds.
Iberian and Latin American Studies have developed in recent years in ways that reflect both the research culture of higher education and student demand. The traditional ‘language and literature’ model has been superseded in many institutions by a contextual, interdisciplinary approach encompassing areas as diverse as history, culture, literature, film, politics and international relations. This new series will reflect the breadth of subject matters within contemporary courses.
‘[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.
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.
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. Vàzquez García is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cadiz. He has published widely for various Spanish publishers and university presses.