Anticlericalism, effeminacy and homosexuality in early twentieth-century Portuguese and Brazilian anarchism.
This article analyses discourses within Brazilian and Portuguese anarchist periodicals on the subject of homosexuality. It shows that many concepts and languages employed by the anarchist movement were what may now be termed both heterosexist and homophobic. Rather than straightforwardly condemn the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 175 - 193 |
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