Maricas: Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942-1982 - Hardcoverby Javier Fernndez Galeano (Author) In Maricas Javier Fern? ndez Galeano traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish gender and sexually nonconforming people who carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s. In both countries, agents of the state, judiciary, and medical communities employed "social danger" theory to measure individuals' latent criminality, conflating sexual and