18 Invisible Catalan(e)s: Catalan Women Writers and the Contested Space of Home

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. List of contributors xiii
6. List of abbreviations xv
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Medieval and Early Modern
9. 1 Female Foundations in the Libro de Alexandre and Poema de Fernán González 25
10. 2 Desire and Transgression in the Female Voice of Early Popular Lyric 41
11. 3 From Virgin Martyr to Holy Harlot: Female Saints in the Middle Ages and the Problem of Classification 55
12. 4 Choosing and Testing Spouses in Medieval Exemplary Literature 69
13. 5 Through Women’s Eyes: The Appropriation of Male Discourse by Three Medieval Women Authors 81
14. 6 Intellectual, Contemplative, Administrator: Isabel de Villena and the Vindication of Women 97
15. 7 Anatomies of a Saint: The Unstable Body of Teresa de Jesús 109
16. 8 Women’s Artistic Production and Their Visual Representation in Early Modern Spain 129
17. 9 The Baroque and the Undead: Carnal Knowledge in the Novellas of María de Zayas 143
18. 10 Distinct Drama? Female Dramatists in Golden Age Spain 157
19. Part II: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
20. 11 Conversations from a Distance: Spanish and French Eighteenth-Century Women Writers 175
21. 12 What They Saw: Women’s Exposure to and in Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain 189
22. 13 Luxurious Borders: Containment and Excess in Nineteenth-Century Spain 211
23. 14 Women as Cultural Agents in Spanish Modernity 227
24. 15 Politics and the Feminist Essay in Spain 243
25. 16 The Theatricalized Self: Women Artists in Masquerade from 1920 to the Present 257
26. 17 Gender and Change: Identity and Reform in the Second Republic 273
27. 18 Invisible Catalan(e)s: Catalan Women Writers and the Contested Space of Home 287
28. 19 The Mother and the Nation: Reading Contemporary Women’s Autobiographies 301
29. 20 Tropes of Freedom: Spectacular Eroticism and the Spanish New Woman On-Screen 317
30. 21 Almodóvar’s ‘Others’: Spanish Women Film-Makers, Masquerade, and Maternity 329
31. Works cited 343
32. Index 395