Women in contemporary culture : roles and identities in France and Spain / edited by Lesley Twomey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Twomey, Lesley K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--France--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Spain--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vi, 194 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Portland, OR : Intellect, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dealing with current events in France and Spain, this is the only comparative study of its kind, investigating how women construct their identities within the public sphere and highlighting the ways in which traditional or modern values impact on female identity in these countries. Which female figures are proposed for our admiration? Who proposes them and what values do they represent? This is an evaluation of womens lives at the end of the 20th Century the Century of Women celebrating the achievements and looking to opportunities presented by the century to come.

Contents:

Front Cover

Preliminaries

Contents

Contributors

Tables

Preface

Abbreviations for the political parties

Introduction

1: Parity in French Politics

2: Women and Political Participation

3: The Image and Role of Women Promoted by the Extreme Right and Catholic Integrists in Contemporary France

4: 'Licencia mas amplia para matar'?

5: 'Still Working on it'

6: Gendered Structures in the City

7: Feminism in Spain

8: Lesbian Identity in Contemporary Spain

9: An Introduction to Julia Kristeva

10: The Quest for Identity in the Later Fiction of Simone de Beauvoir

11: Discursive Configurations of Identity in 'El cuarto de atras' and 'Cronica del dessamor'

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781280477300

128047730X

9781841508603

1841508608

OCLC:

70763669