Lenchitudes

Alejandra Márquez is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Michigan State University.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward Lenchitudes 1. Points of Departure: Traces of Sapphic Desire 2. La más macha de las machas: Lencha Masculinities 3. The Fem Fatal: Femme Representation 4. Queering Heteronormativity or Normalizing Queerness? Monogamy and Motherhood Conclusion: Lenchitudes Ahead Notes Bibliography Index

"This accessible text offers an inclusive reading of contemporary sapphic narrative in Mexico from 1989 through the 2010s." — CHOICE"Sure to become a reference point for research and teaching in LGBTQ+ studies in and about Latin America, Lenchitudes challenges the dominant focus on gay male representation in cuir studies without simply adding lesbian culture to the existing scholarship. In dialogue with both the epistemologies of Mexican social movements and Latin American lesbian, marica, and travesti thinkers, Márquez moves beyond an identity-based approach to gender and sexuality, exploring the entanglement of multiple sapphic representations, desires, and experiences." — Patricio Simonetto, author of A Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of Argentina"A very important contribution to the study of Spanish-language LGBTQ+ literature and culture from Mexico. Márquez incorporates a deep knowledge of queer/cuir approaches, skillfully connecting concepts from Anglo-American theory to related, though distinct, Mexican cultural schemes to produce readings that transcend the identity politics of Mexican lesbian-feminist circles. Lenchitudes is poised to help visibilize Mexican sapphic cultures in the English-speaking world." — Brandon Bisbey, author of Between Camp and Cursi: Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative