Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces

1. Introduction
Maria C. DiFrancesco, Debra J. Ochoa

Part I. Masculinities and Gender Dynamics in Urban Space

2. Bodies, Spaces, and Transitions in Alberto Rodríguez’s Grupo 7 (2012) and La isla mínima (2014)
Vinodh Venkatesh

3. The Spaces of Patriarchy in Rafael Chirbes’s En la orilla (2013)
Olga Bezhanova

4. Marking Territory: Violence and Hypermasculinity in Ramon Térmens and Carles Torras’s Joves (2004)
Antoni Maestre-Brotons

5. Home and Sexuality: Queering the Notions of Parenting and Space in Cachorro (2004)
Adrián Gras-Velázquez

Part II. Immigration and Female Subjectivity in Urban Peripheries

6. Broken Sexualities: Claiming the Right to the City in Maite Carranza’s El fruto del baobab (2013)
Ana Corbalán

7. On the Affective Politics of Cosmopolitanism: African Migration, Lavapiés, and the Domestic Realm in Lucía Etxebarría’s Cosmofobia (2007)
N. Michelle Murray

8. Defining Mother’s Place in Barcelona: Women in Biutiful (2010)
Catherine B. Ross

Part III. Interior and Exterior Spaces of Gender in Madrid and Barcelona

9. Re-Creating Space in Cristina Cerezales Laforet’s El pozo del cielo (2013)
Sandra J. Schumm

10. From Place to Space: Creating a Utopia in Juan José Millás’s Dos mujeres en Praga (2002)
Victoria Ketz

11. Precarious Life in the High Rise: Neoliberal Urban Interiors in Rec (2007) and Mientras duermes (2011)
Antonio Cordoba

Part IV. Gender and Migration in Urban Spaces

12. Searching in the City of Lost Memories: La mujer sin piano (2009) and Post-11-M Trauma
Alberto Villamandos

13. The Female Façade and the Façade of the Female in the Mini-Series El tiempo entre costuras (2013)
Kyra A. Kietrys

14. The City Unmapped: A Feminist Imagination of Urban Spaces in Javier Pérez Andújar’s Paseos con mi madre (2011)
Lindsey Reuben Muñoz

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, European Culture, Urban Studies/Sociology, European Cinema, European Literature