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Akiko Tsuchiya Libros

Marginal Subjects

Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men – indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman–and her counterpart, the feminized man – revealed the ambivalence of literary writers towards new methods of social control in