{"product_id":"lenchitudes-alejandra-mzarquez-9798855805147","title":"Lenchitudes: Sapphic Representation in Contemporary Mexican Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the 2010s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing inspiration from the 2020 Marcha Lencha-\"Lesbian March\"-in Mexico City, Alejandra Márquez expands the concept of \u003ci\u003elenchitudes\u003c\/i\u003e into a critical framework for thinking about gender and sexuality more expansively and inclusively, beyond essentialist identity categories. Assembling a lesbian archive that stretches from the publication of Rosamaría Roffiel's cult classic Amora in 1989 to the 2010s, \u003ci\u003eLenchitudes\u003c\/i\u003e argues that sapphic representation in contemporary Mexican narrative subverts but also reinforces patriarchal norms. Sapphic narratives, Márquez argues, are not inherently queer but rather can uphold binary gender roles, heteronormativity, and monogamy. Bridging literature and activism, and putting theorists such as Judith Butler, Jack Halberstam, and José Esteban Muñoz into conversation with Latin American scholarship, \u003ci\u003eLenchitudes\u003c\/i\u003e boldly joins ongoing debates about the place of queerness, or \u003ci\u003elo cuir\u003c\/i\u003e, in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alejandra Márquez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855805147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Alejandra Márquez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48014227013887,"sku":"9798855805147","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5b38943-dfd6-4e83-b21a-6f7adf55f1d5.jpg?v=1767747473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lenchitudes-alejandra-mzarquez-9798855805147","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}