Sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain : Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform / Alison Sinclair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinclair, Alison.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies.

Iberian and Latin American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Social aspects--Spain--History--20th century.

Sex.

World League for Sexual Reform.

Hildegart, 1914-1933.

Hildegart.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, and does so by using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodríguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR). In all its diversity and with all its inbuilt contradictions the movement provides the complex backcloth for understanding the nature and activity of Hildegart, while her life in its turn demonstrates how the divers strands of the movement led to paradox and conflict. In addition to this Hildegart's correspondence w

Contents:

Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Face of Reform in Europe and theSpanish Case; Conception of Reform; Growing up under the Dictatorship; Coming to Maturity and the Limits ofTolerance; Hildegart's 'child', the Spanish Liga; The Liga Speaks; Writing to the 'fairy god'; Filicide: Perfection and Eugenic Death; Hildegart's Letters; Brief Bio-Bibliographical Guide to FiguresMentioned in the Text; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Reprinted 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-20116-4

0-7083-2470-3

OCLC:

608925896