Ithaca College

Maria DiFrancesco, Professor of Spanish, recently published Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces: Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium. This co-edited collection, completed with colleague Debra Ochoa of Trinity University (San Antonio, TX) examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains that not all subjects—particularly, women, immigrants, and queers—possess equal autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within the nation’s largest urban capitals—Madrid and Barcelona—and takes a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically unstable Spain. For more information, see: http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319473246