Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press Hardback
by Lou (SUNY at Stony Brook) Charnon-Deutsch
Part of the Studies in Romance Literatures series
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How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late nineteenth-century Spain?
Using a wide array of images from popular magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture. Charnon-Deutsch organizes the 190 images reproduced in this book into six broad categories, or "fictions of the feminine": she reads women's bodies as a romantic symbol of beauty or evil, as a privileged link with the natural order, as a font of male inspiration, as a mouthpiece of bourgeois mores, as a focalized point of male fear and desire, and as an eroticized expression of Spanish exoticism and political ambitions.
These imaginary visions of femininity, Charnon-Deutsch argues, were a response to, and also helped to create, gendered stereotypes by suggesting ideal feminine behavior and poses.
Further, they comprised a reassuring "between-male" cultural medium that provided graphic validation of women's docile body for a culture enthralled with femininity. Integrating the fields of literature and cultural studies, Charnon-Deutsch's approach to this subject is unique.
Many of the images collected here are available for the first time, and they represent only a fraction of the two thousand images Charnon-Deutsch collected during her research.
This book will appeal to students of Spanish cultural studies and gender studies, as well as to art historians.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:328 pages, 192 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1999
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- ISBN:9780271019130
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:328 pages, 192 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780271019130