Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces - Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium

This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains that not all subjects-particularly, women, immigrants, and queers-possess equal autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within the nation's largest urban capitals-Madrid and Barcelona-and takes a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically unstable Spain. As the contributors problematize notions of public and private space and disrupt gender binaries related with these, they aspire to engender discussion around civic status, the administration of space and the place of all citizens in a global world.


Maria C. DiFrancesco is Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of Modern Languages & Literatures at Ithaca College, USA. She specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and film and has authored many articles and a book, Feminine Agency and Transgression in Post-Franco Spain. She is Vice President of the Northeast Modern Languages Association.
Debra J. Ochoa is Associate Professor of Spanish at Trinity University, USA. She specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and film and has published articles on Pedro Almodóvar, Carmen Martín Gaite, María Teresa León, among other Spanish writers and film directors.