A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

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A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

Edited by: Xon de Ros and Geraldine Hazbun
With contributions by: Alexander W Samson , Andrew M Beresford , Carmen Fracchia , Frances Lannon , Georgina Dopico-Black , Geraldine Hazbun , Helena Buffery , Jessamy Harvey , Joanna Evans , Joyce Tolliver , Laura Lonsdale , Lou Charnon-Deutsch , Louise M Haywood , Margaret R Greer , Mariana Masera , Mónica Bolufer Peruga , Nieves Baranda , Roberta Quance , Rosanna Cantavella , Susan Kirkpatrick and Xon de Ros

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

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Volume 294 | Monografías A

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An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of Women's Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism.

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Samson Alexander W :

ALEXANDER SAMSON is Reader in Early Modern Studies at University College London.Beresford Andrew M :

Senior Lecturer in Spanish, University of Durham.Haywood Louise M :

Louise M Haywood is a University Senior Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Studies and Joint Schools' Liason Officer for the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow in Spanish and Tutor at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Director of Studies at St John's College, CambridgeGreer Margaret R :

MARGARET R. GREER is Emeritus Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.Masera Mariana :

MARIANA MASERA is a Senior Researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), director of the Laboratorio de Culturas e Impresos Populares Iberoamericanos (LACIPI), coordinator of the Red Internacional de Lyra Minima (RELYMI) and co-founder of the International Congress of Lyra Mínima.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
List of contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Medieval and Early Modern
1 Female Foundations in the Libro de Alexandre and Poema de Fernán González Geraldine Hazbun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
2 Desire and Transgression in the Female Voice of Early Popular Lyric Mariana Masera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
3 From Virgin Martyr to Holy Harlot: Female Saints in the Middle Ages and the Problem of Classification Andrew M. Beresford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
4 Choosing and Testing Spouses in Medieval Exemplary Literature Louise M. Haywood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
5 Through Women’s Eyes: The Appropriation of Male Discourse by Three Medieval Women Authors Nieves Baranda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
6 Intellectual, Contemplative, Administrator: Isabel de Villena and the Vindication of Women Rosanna Cantavella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
7 Anatomies of a Saint: The Unstable Body of Teresa de Jesús Georgina Dopico-Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
8 Women’s Artistic Production and Their Visual Representation in Early Modern Spain Carmen Fracchia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
9 The Baroque and the Undead: Carnal Knowledge in the Novellas of María de Zayas Margaret Greer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
10 Distinct Drama? Female Dramatists in Golden Age Spain Alexander Samson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Part II: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
11 Conversations from a Distance: Spanish and French Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Mónica Bolufer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
12 What They Saw: Women’s Exposure to and in Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain Lou Charnon-Deutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
13 Luxurious Borders: Containment and Excess in Nineteenth-Century Spain Alison Sinclair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
14 Women as Cultural Agents in Spanish Modernity Susan Kirkpatrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
15 Politics and the Feminist Essay in Spain Joyce Tolliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
16 The Theatricalized Self: Women Artists in Masquerade from 1920 to the Present Roberta Ann Quance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
17 Gender and Change: Identity and Reform in the Second Republic Frances Lannon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
18 Invisible Catalan(e)s: Catalan Women Writers and the Contested Space of Home Helena Buffery and Laura Lonsdale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
19 The Mother and the Nation: Reading Contemporary Women’s Autobiographies Xon de Ros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
20 Tropes of Freedom: Spectacular Eroticism and the Spanish New Woman On-Screen Jessamy Harvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
21 Almodóvar’s ‘Others’: Spanish Women Film-Makers, Masquerade, and Maternity Jo Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Works cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395

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May 19, 2011

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9781782044239

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Tamesis Books

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430

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9 colour, 12 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782044239

eBook ISBN: 9781782044239

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Spain; Women's Studies; peninsular Hispanism; women writers; cultural production; Middle Ages; modern section; politics; culture; literature; gender

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Professional and scholarly;

A Companion to Spanish Women's Studies

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