Chapter Two. Gender, Casticismo, and Imperial Nations in Spain’s fin de siècle: Blanca de los Ríos’s Sangre española (1899)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. From behind the Lines to Writing War’s Texts: Redrawing the Boundaries of War and Gender 1
6. Chapter One. Love of Nation and Women’s Citizenship in Rosario de Acuña’s Amor a la patria (1877) 19
7. Chapter Two. Gender, Casticismo, and Imperial Nations in Spain’s fin de siècle: Blanca de los Ríos’s Sangre española (1899) 38
8. Chapter Three. Charity, Patria, and Painting War’s Pain: Concepción Arenal’s Writings, 1869–79 57
9. Chapter Four. The Monstrosity of War and Justpeace: Concepción Arenal’s Cuadros de la guerra and Ensayo sobre el Derecho de Gentes 77
10. Chapter Five. Getting Intimate with Empire: Fin-de-siècle Women Writing a Psychology of the Disaster 96
11. Chapter Six. Disordering the Imperial Home: Blanca de los Ríos’s La niña de Sanabria (1907) 117
12. Chapter Seven. Purity of Blood in the National Family? Spain’s War in Morocco in Carmen de Burgos’s En la guerra (Episodios de Melilla) (1909) 135
13. Chapter Eight. Between Feminist Aspirations and Pacifist Ideals: Burgos’s Essays on World War I and Women in War 156
14. Chapter Nine. Denouncing War’s Broken Syntax: Burgos’s World War I Novellas 173
15. Conclusion. Transforming Moral Maps, Then and Now 195
16. Notes 205
17. References 233
18. Index 269