From a manly Spain to a transvestite Spain? Transgender, transgression and subversion in the transition from Franco's regime to democracy
This paper explores the political function assigned to transgender identities in the context of the Spanish transition from francoism to democracy. It focuses on how Spanish underground journals of the seventies use the image of the transgender community as a symbol of subversion that exemplifies th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Alicante
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Feminismo/s |
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| Online Access: | https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2010-n16-de-una-espana-viril-a-una-espana-travesti-transgresion-transgenero-y-subversion-del-poder-franquista-en-la-transicion-espanola-hacia-la-democracia |
| Summary: | This paper explores the political function assigned to transgender identities in the context of the Spanish transition from francoism to democracy. It focuses on how Spanish underground journals of the seventies use the image of the transgender community as a symbol of subversion that exemplifies the end of the «virility» that francoism had associated with power. Transgender identities are used as a monolithic symbol of the need of celebrating subversion, of deconstructing the influence of francoist power in the construction of identities, but also as a symbol of the new possibility of reclaiming public space. The paper also analyses how this subversion seems to loose its sense once democracy is instituted, and how the destape –the profusion of sexual images in the cultural products of the late seventies in Spain– is related to this loss of revolutionary potential linked to transgender practice. |
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| ISSN: | 1696-8166 1989-9998 |