Spanish women and the colonial wars of the 1890s / D.J. Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, D. J. (Dolores J.), 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish-American War, 1898--Women--Spain.

Spanish-American War, 1898.

Spanish-American War, 1898--Protest movements--Spain.

Women--Spain--Political activity.

Women.

Women--Spain--Social conditions--19th century.

Spain--History--Alfonso XIII, 1886-1931.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late 1890's a journalist wrote, ""Spanish women would rather weep at a husband's or a son's gravesite than blush for lack of patriotic fervor."" Yet at a time when women were expected to sacrifice their sons and husbands willingly for the sake of the nation, women organized and led three significant demonstrations against conscription in Spain. In Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890's, D. J. Walker succeeds not only in contextualizing these demonstrations but also in elucidating what they suggested to contemporaries about the role of women in public life in late nineteenth-century

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Spanish Women and War, 1808-1898; CHAPTER TWO: Women and Violent Political Actions; CHAPTER THREE: The 1896 Women's Demonstrations against Conscription; Illustrations; CHAPTER FOUR: Institutions That Shaped Women's Lives; CHAPTER FIVE: Women's Voices; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807154908

0807154903

9780807134320

0807134325

OCLC:

250606834