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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction vii
4. PART I Towards Female Exemplarity: Setting the Norm
5. 1 From Nationalist Victory to New Signifying Practices 1
6. 2 Engendering Exemplary Women 9
7. 3 La perfecta casada: The Catholic Model of an Ideal Wife 21
8. 4 El ángel del hogar and the Bourgeois Ideal of Domesticity 34
9. 5 Female Formation and La nueva mujer of the Falange 45
10. PART II Reading Romance: Questioning the Norm
11. 6 Post-War Conventions of Representing Women: Gender and Genre Constraints 71
12. 7 “La imperfecta casada” or the Making of an Ideal Wife in Luisa-María Linares’ Un marido a precio fijo 93
13. 8 Interpreting ‘Surrender’ in Concha Linares-Becerra’s Como los hombres nos quieren 108
14. 9 Carmen de Icaza’s Soñar la vida or the Imperative to Dream 124
15. 10 Taking Matters into Your Own Hands in María Mercedes Ortoll’s En pos de la ilusión 146
16. Conclusion 170
17. Bibliography 173
18. Index 183