S/He : sex & gender in hispanic cultures / edited by Debra D. Andrist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrist, Debra D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

Sex (Psychology).

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Brighton, [England] ; Portland, [Oregon] ; Toronto, [Ontario] : Sussex Academic Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book focuses on sex and gender issues in the Hispanic worlds, paying homage to all who do not fit within the strict parameters of previous definitions by including broadened descriptions of identity, both biological and social, and by highlighting aspects of traditional and non-traditional lifestyles as portrayed in art and literature.

Contents:

pt. 1. Traditional domestic roles for women in life & literature, revisited

Family responsibilities : a recipe for the modern Spanish nation : Carmen de Burgos's and Emilia Pardo Bazán's cookbook discourses / Michelle M. Sharp

Latinas and responsibilities : searching for the map : an early revelation of Latina identity crisis in bilingual theatre

coser y antar/Sewing and singing by Dolores Prida / Elizabeth White Coscio

Biological destiny throughout the ages? : non-traditional concepts of motherhood : Hispanic women poets in the 20th century / Debra D. Andrist

pt. 2. Not-so-traditional roles and role models for women in life, art & literature

On the (formal) education of women / Debra D. Andrist

Tradition and the new Mexican santeras / Kimberly Habegger

Images of power : visual transformations of Our Lady (of Guadalupe), female saints & angels / Debra D. Andrist

20th century political s/heroes : women & the Spanish Civil War / Debra D. Andrist

20th century mothers as s/heroes : maternalism, "rooting" & solidarity : the poetry of Angela Figuera Aymerich / María Montserrat Feu-López

Golden age s/heroes : steel-plated petticoats : women and heroism in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote / Lauren Derby

20th century female protagonists : Rosalía Pipaón De La Barca and Becky Caldwell : the emergence of female protagonists in Benito Pérez Galdós and Rolando Hinojosa / Stephen J. Miller

Twentieth century feminist s/heroes in life & literature : claiming one's own identity : Alicia Kozameh : author turned activist and her characters / Gwendolyn Díaz Ridgeway

pt. 3. Identity formation in, and role models for, women via art & literature

The semiotics of Hispanic womanhood : words and pictures : the early days of recognition and recovery / Debra D. Andrist

Creoles : female white Creoles in Rosario Ferre's narrative / Patricia González Gómez-Cásseres

Bridges across multiple identities : literal & figurative Chicanahood / Debra D. Andrist

pt. 4. Sex & gender blurring in life, art & literature

Conflation of (gender) identities in the multifaceted Pablo Picasso / Enrique Mallén

Eroticism in two "medio siglo" Mexican women writers of the uncanny : Amparo Dávila and Guadalupe Dueñas / Eduardo Cerdán

Transsexualism : revisiones & reverses in Rima de Vallbona's Beto y Betina / Debra D. Andrist

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed Noverber 21, 2017).

ISBN:

1-78284-462-7