A companion to Spanish women's studies / edited by Xon de Ros, Geraldine Hazbun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ros, Xon de.

Hazbun, Geraldine.

Series:

Colección Tamesis ; 294.

Colección Tamesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 294

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists--Spain--History.

Women artists.

Women authors, Spanish--Spain--History.

Women authors, Spanish.

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Arts, Medieval--Spain--History.

Arts, Medieval.

Arts, Modern--History.

Arts, Modern.

Arts, Spanish--Spain--History.

Arts, Spanish.

Women's studies.

Intellectual life.

History.

Spain--Intellectual life--History.

Spain.

Physical Description:

xvi, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2011.

Summary:

After an introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the context of Spain, twenty-one chronologically ordered essays by scholars from Britain, the United States, Spain and Mexico explore women's roles in the cultural production of their time from the Middle Ages to the present.

The essays of the first half examine the work of the earliest women writers and artists memoirs and meditations, novellas and plays and the representation or self-representation of women in a broad sweep of texts including medieval folksong, hagiography, and painting of the Baroque era.

The modern section focuses on women's participation in politics and culture from the eighteenth century onwards: as translators and essayists, as consumers of visual ephemera and conduct books, as writers and artists, film directors and performers.

An alternative and supplement to standard literary histories, this volume offers new insights into women's agency and representation in the cultural heritage of Spain. It will prove a useful and stimulating resource for students at all levels, and an accessible guide for the general reader. Book jacket.

Contents:

Female foundations in the Libro de Alexandre and Poema de Fernán González / Geraldine Hazbun

Desire and transgression in the female voice of early popular lyric / Mariana Masera

From virgin martyr to holy harlot : female saints in the Middle Ages and the problem of classification / Andrew M. Beresford

Choosing and testing spouses in medieval exemplary literature / Louise M. Haywood

Through women's eyes : the appropriation of male discourse by three medieval women authors / Nieves Baranda

Intellectual, contemplative, administrator : Isabel de Villena and the vindication of women / Rosanna Cantavella

Anatomies of a saint : the unstable body of Teresa de Jesús / Georgina Dopico-Black

Women's artistic production and their visual representation in early modern Spain / Carmen Fracchia

The baroque and the undead : carnal knowledge in the novellas of María de Zayas / Margaret Greet

Distinct drama? : female dramatists in Golden Age Spain / Alexander Samson

Conversations from a distance : Spanish and French eighteenth-century women writers / Mónica Bolufer

What they saw : women's exposure to and in visual culture in nineteenth-century Spain / Lou Charnon-Deutsch

Luxurious borders : containment and excess in nineteenth-century Spain / Alison Sinclair

Women as cultural agents in Spanish modernity / Susan Kirkpatrick

Politics and the feminist essay in Spain / Joyce Tolliver

The theatricalized self : women artists in masquerade from 1920 to the present / Roberta Ann Quance

Gender and change : identity and reform in the Second Republic / Frances Lannon

Invisible Catalan(e)s : Catalan women writers and the contested space of home / Helena Buffery and Laura Lonsdale

The mother and the nation : reading contemporary women's autobiographies / Xon de Ros

Tropes of freedom : spectacular eroticism and the Spanish new woman on-screen / Jessamy Harvey

Almodóvar's "Others" : Spanish women film-makers, masquerade, and maternity / Jo Evans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-394) and index.

ISBN:

9781855662247

1855662248

OCLC:

641506619