How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late
nineteenth-century Spain? Using a wide array of images from popular
magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were
typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging
bourgeois culture.
Charnon-Deutsch organizes the 190 images reproduced in this book
into six broad categories, or "fictions of the feminine" she reads
women's bodies as a romantic symbol of beauty or evil, as a
privileged link with the natural order, as a font of male
inspiration, as a mouthpiece of bourgeois mores, as a focalized
point of male fear and desire, and as an eroticized expression of
Spanish exoticism and political ambitions. These imaginary visions
of femininity, Charnon-Deutsch argues, were a response to, and also
helped to create, gendered stereotypes by suggesting ideal feminine
behavior and poses. Further, they comprised a reassuring
"between-male" cultural medium that provided graphic validation of
women's docile body for a culture enthralled with femininity.
Integrating the fields of literature and cultural studies,
Charnon-Deutsch's approach to this subject is unique. Many of the
images collected here are available for the first time, and they
represent only a fraction of the two thousand images
Charnon-Deutsch collected during her research. This book will
appeal to students of Spanish cultural studies and gender studies,
as well as to art historians.
General
Imprint: |
Pennsylvania State University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies in Romance Literatures |
Release date: |
December 1999 |
First published: |
1999 |
Authors: |
Lou Charnon-Deutsch
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Dimensions: |
279 x 216 x 29mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
328 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-271-01913-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
0-271-01913-1 |
Barcode: |
9780271019130 |
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