Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.
Contents:
pt. I: The building of a condemnation. 1: An apostolic paradox. Colonizing the effeminate man ; The specter of the manly woman -- 2: The positivist production of the pederast -- pt. II: New spaces and new subjectivities. 3: The feminist, the garzona, and the gay man. Life decrees ; In the night of the world -- 4: Another positivist (trans)formation -- 5: A prison-house of womanless men -- pt. III: Revolutionary normativities and their effects -- 6: Creative redemption in a providential teleology -- 7: A queer response to postmodern simulation -- 8: The (auto)biography of a furious dissident -- 9: Attempting a difficult rectification -- 10: (Un)veiling machismo. The masks of mascaras ; The search for an elided voice ; Writing lesbian desire -- 11: Gender trouble in the land of the butterflies -- 12: Crossing gender and national boundaries. Dissemination, consumerism, and new stereotypes ; Nostalgia for the new home ; An aesthetics of destabilization.
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