Crossing Through Chueca

Jill Robbins is associate professor of Spanish literature and culture at the University of Texas, at Austin.

• Preface: Marching toward Marriage1. A Brief History of Chueca and Madrid's Queer Space2. Lesbian Literary Identities in the Madrid Book Business3. The New Safita: Andalusia and the Phallic Woman in Plumas de España4. Lesbian-Themed Best-Sellers and the Politics of Acceptance5. Dislocations: Identity and Communication in Cenicienta en Chueca6. Popular Lesbian Fiction: Romance, Literature, and LegislationConclusion: Toward Lesbian VisibilityAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotesIndex

"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