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Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid

By (author) Francisco Fernandez de Alba
Categories: Gender studies, gender groups, Social groups and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences
Series: Toronto Iberic
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Paperback : 9781487521448, 200 pages, December 2019
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Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: 1970s Madrid: The Dawn of a New Sensibility

1. Madrid: Planning the Democratic City
2. Sex: Building Plural Communities
3. Drugs: The Burden of Modernity
4. Fashion: Democracy Prêt-à-porter

Conclusion: Legacies of the 1970s: The Origins of la Movida

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Description

During the last decade of Franco’s repressive rule, the Spanish outlook on sex, drugs, and fashion shifted dramatically, creating a favourable cultural environment for the return of democracy. The book explores changes in urban planning, narratives of sexual and gender identity, recreational drug use, and fashion design during the seventies, arguing that it was this decade that developed the material and emotional conditions for the groundbreaking transition to democracy.