Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures) Book

A critical survey of graphic representations of the feminine in the emerging bourgeois culture of Spain. 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 womenÂ?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 womenÂ?s docile body for a culture enthralled with femininity. Integrating the fields of literature and cultural studies, Charnon-DeutschÂ?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.Read More

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  • 0271019131
  • 9780271019130
  • Lou Charnon-Deutsch
  • 31 January 2000
  • Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 307
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