Artículo de Francisco Vázquez, en coautoría con Narciso de Gabriel y Renée De Palma, sobre el caso de Elisa y Marcela, publicado en la revista Sexualities

Acaba de publicarse online, un artículo de Narciso De Gabriel (Universidad de A Coruña), Renée de Palma (Universidad de A Coruña) y Francisco Vázquez García (Universidad de Cádiz), titulado "Defining Desire: (Re)storiying a 'Fraudulent' Marriage in 1901 Spain", en la revista Sexualities, 21 (9), Dec. 2018, pp. 1-20. El artículo es un estudio de caso sobre el "falso" matrimonio de las maestras gallegas Elisa y Marcela en junio de 1901. Debajo se reproduce el abstract:

In the second half of the 19th century, two Spanish primary school teachers were married despite the fact that their legal status as women rendered this union not only illegal but also publicly scandalous. In 2008 their story was resurrected in the form of a book based on an extensive review of educational, legal, and media archives. The Spanish press responded to the book’s publication by embedding the events within a more recent historical narrative around the struggle for gay marriage rights. In this article, we analyze the events in light of the understandings of sex, gender and sexuality that were available at the time, and then explore both the continuities and discontinuities with the modern interpretive framework that affords these women a lesbian identity, drawing upon Bennett’s notion of “lesbian-like” practices in eras where such identities were not yet conceptualized.