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This paper analyzes the interface of gender, sexuality, and the city, underscoring how class, ethnicity, and race interact with female sexual identity, and how thousands of women are still rendered invisible in cities today. The author examines the contention and obliteration of female sexuality as portrayed in El fruto del baobab, a novel by Maite Carranza published in 2013. Carranza’s novel attempts to eliminate the traditional division between public and private spheres, since the privacy and invisibility usually conferred to women’s broken sexuality occupies a central role in the public realm. The author questions to what extent cultural traditions deny immigrants their access to Spanish citizenship and how this exclusion affects foreign women’s integration in Spain.
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Corbalán, A. (2017). Broken Sexualities: Claiming the Right to the City in Maite Carranza’s El fruto del baobab (2013). In: DiFrancesco, M., Ochoa, D. (eds) Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces. Hispanic Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47325-3_6
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