Maricas traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s.

Javier Fernández-Galeano is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of València.
 
 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Marica politics?
PART I: Anti-Marica Discourses and Praxis
Chapter I. Forensic Sexual Violence: Maricas’ “Deviant” Bodies and Minds
Chapter II. The Tacky & the Sublime: Transatlantic Entendido and Marica Cultures
PART II: The Erotics of Masculinity
Chapter III. “Exotic Lubrications:” Performing Masculinity in Sex Markets
Chapter IV. “People Don’t Know What a Homosexual Is:” Argentine Soldiers’ Sexual Culture under Dictatorial Rule
PART III: Marica Politics
Chapter V. Travesti and Marica Prisoners: Clothes, Performance, and Resistance
Chapter VI. From Inverse to Converging Paths: Early Sexual Activism in Argentina and Spain
Conclusions. Marica Archives and Histories of Emancipation
Notes
Bibliography
Index