Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siecle Spain (Paperback)

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-SiEcle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject. This archival-historical work highlights the phenomenon in medical, social, and literary texts of the time, illustrating that despite many liberals' hostility toward the Church, secular doctors and intellectuals employed strikingly similar paradigms to those through which the early modern Spanish Church castigated female mysticism as demonic possession. Author Jennifer Smith also directs modern historians to the writings of Emilia Pardo BazAn (1851-1921) as a thinker whose work points out mysticism's subversive potential in terms of the patriarchal order. The only woman author studied here, Pardo BazAn, unlike her male counterparts, rejected the hysteria diagnosis and promoted mysticism as a path for women's personal development and self-realization.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2021
Authors:	Jennifer Smith
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-0186-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-8265-0186-9
Barcode:	9780826501868

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