To escape the heat of an August day in Madrid, Maite Zubiaurre
ducked into an antique shop and there among world globes and old
maps, she discovered a peculiar photo album. Tucked away among
formal photos of King Alphonso XIII and Queen Isabel II was a whole
collection of images of naked women and men. And, unlike the King,
these women and men were not just posing. Rather they were engaged
in a variety of "unnatural" sex acts, acts clearly at odds with the
Spanish Catholic Church's doctrine that sex should serve for
procreation alone: menages a trois, fellatio, cunnilingus, and
zoophilia. But perhaps the most surprising images of the collection
were a series of photos and sketches devoted to nuns and priests
frolicking together on consecrated ground.
Zubiaurre realized she had discovered more than just a half-hidden
collection of "naughty pictures," rather, she held in her hands a
wealth of supressed or forgotten materials that revealed a
subversive countercurrent to the orthodoxies of Spain's
male-dominated official high culture in the early 20th century. She
set about to study these images and others like them as
counter-text to traditional narratives of and about the time.
The result, "Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939," is the
first academic book to analyze the rich array of visual and textual
representations of the erotic in Spanish popular culture during the
first half of the twentieth century. It examines erotic magazines,
illustrations, photographs, stereoscopic images, "French"
postcards, and pornographic short films, as well as erotic
novelettes, texts and images on naturism and nudism, writings on
early sexology and psychoanalysis, moral-judicial treatises and
philosophical essays on sexual love.
"Cultures of the Erotic" reveals a candid and irreverent Spain,
which, before succumbing to the stifling circumstances of the
post-Civil War Franco dictatorship, reveled in the undying impulses
of the human libido.
General
Imprint: |
Vanderbilt University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2012 |
First published: |
April 2012 |
Authors: |
Maite Zubiaurre
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Dimensions: |
295 x 263 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
384 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8265-1696-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Reference & Interdisciplinary >
Interdisciplinary studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-8265-1696-3 |
Barcode: |
9780826516961 |
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