Author: Mary NashPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Book Description
Political Culture, Catalan Nationalism, and the Women's Movement in Early Twentieth-century Spain
Author: Mary NashCatalan Nationalism
Author: Montserrat GuibernauPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113435326X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Catalan Nationalism offers a fresh socio-political analysis of Catalan nationalism during the Franco regime (1939-1975) and the Spanish transition to democracy.
The Origins of Catalan Nationalism, 1770-1898
Author: A. SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137354496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book looks at the reasons behind the emergence of a Catalan nationalist movement from the late 1880s, one of the most important developments that took place in nineteenth-century Spain, with the 'Catalan question' thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage.
Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sylvia PaletschekPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804767076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. In the various parts of Europe, this process went forward at a different pace and followed different patterns. Most historical research up to now has ignored this diversity, preferring to focus on women’s emancipation movements in major western European countries such as Britain and France. The present volume provides a broader context to the movement by including countries both large and small from all regions of Europe. Fourteen historians, all of them specialists in women’s history, examine the origins and development of women’s emancipation movements in their respective areas of expertise. By exploring the cultural and political diversity of nineteenth-century Europe and at the same time pointing out connections to questions explored by conventional scholarship, the essays shed new light on common developments and problems.
Catalan Nationalism
Author: Albert BalcellsPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312126117
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book, the first study of Catalan nationalism to appear in English, outlines the history of Catalonia, showing how the national and cultural identity of the region persisted despite persecution. This provides the necessary background for the analysis of the contemporary political and cultural situation in Catalonia in the wider context of the European Union.
Through a Feminist Lens
Author: Christine Gallagher KearneyPublisher:
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Category : Catalan language
Languages : ca
Pages : 215
Book Description
The goal for my master's thesis is to understand how the working class women of Catalunya (specifically women that lived in the small farming villages in the region of Les Garrigues), contributed to the survival of Catalan. Catalunya is an autonomous region of Spain that endured more than three decades of the Francisco Franco dictatorship (1934-1975) that attempted to eradicate the Catalan language and culture. As stated by Everly (2003): "[...] the regional exile of Catalunya from the rest of Spain acts as a backdrop provoking women to go a step further and experiment with their own sense of gender separation within their particular culture" (p. 15). In other words, not only did Catalan women experience the oppressive effects of the patriarchal Spanish culture, but they also grappled with their Catalan identity under the nation-state ideology where Catalunya was disavowed a voice. Moreover, the significance women played in the survival of the Catalan language cannot be understated: "[...] the language became relegated to secretive hidden corners of the home [during the Franco dictatorship], to the traditionally domestic maternal feminine sphere; in effect, Catalan language was exiled from Catalunya yet survived in the feminine space of the home" (p. 21). Current research regarding Catalan, women, nationalism and feminism uses non ethnographic methods. Everly (2003) examined the writings of four influential Catalan women writers who wrote and published in exile during the Franco dictatorship. Nash (1996) reviewed early 20th century Spanish history to understand the role feminism played in Catalunya with respect to Catalan nationalism. Radcliff (2002) reviewed the housewives' associations that formed across Spain in the 1960s and 1970s revealing the complexity of the various women's movement ideologies at play. Previous studies examined at a distance and have not taken an ethnographic approach to gaining a deep cultural understanding of the interplay between the Catalan language, nationalism and feminism. My study uses an ethnographic method to understanding and hearing the voices of the Catalan women that spoke in the private feminine sphere against Franco's attempts to eradicate the Catalan language. Nine semi-structured ethnographic interviews were conducted in the pueblos of Les Borges Blanques and Juneda. Using the Cultural Discourse Analysis framework, as understood by Carbaugh (2007), I extracted the cultural elements of the communicative acts from the transcribed interview data. The analysis resulted in four major research findings. First, the struggle for gender equality is embedded in gendered labor and gendered spaces (e.g. private and private-public spaces). Second, Catalan norms of communication are complexly tied up in identity, relationships and dwelling. Third, the various levels of proficiency in the Catalan language require that Catalan communication norms flex to accommodate all Catalan native habitants as legitimate Catalan interlocutors. And finally, Catalan mothers perceive their communicative behavior as essential to maintaining the Catalan language and culture. Ultimately, the voices of the working class women that continued to speak Catalan in the private and private-public sphere during the Franco dictatorship remain undiscovered at large. This research cracks open an academic door to reveal complex female communicative behavior under the Franco regime in the pueblos of Les Borges Blanques and Juneda. These unknowingly feminist voices begin to unravel the intersectionality of language, identity and nationalism and show how these elements played out on the bodies of Catalan women, where the nation-body of the autonomous region of Catalunya still survives today on account of flexible Catalan communication norms and Catalan women resisting patriarchal authority.
Identity and Nation in 21st Century Catalonia
Author: Steven ByrnePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527573605
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume offers an overview of the ongoing debate regarding nationalism, globalisation, secessionism and languages in 21st century Catalonia. At the heart of the book is a set of interlocking questions relating to socio-political issues in sub-state nations seeking independence in the 21st century.
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish History
Author: Andrew DowlingPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000967441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the history of Spain, exploring key themes and events in four broad but not necessarily rigid temporal categories: medieval, early modern, nineteenth century and twentieth century. The volume situates Spanish history firmly within the broader patterns unfolding across the European continent, emphasizing Spain’s active participation in the processes that determined the development of modern European society. With chapters from leading scholars from both Spanish and international universities, the book helps fill long-standing gaps in European history. This handbook provides original contributions on broad themes in Spanish history which are also accessible syntheses of the most recent scholarship. Making the latest research in Spanish history more widely accessible to an international audience, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish History is an essential reference point for students and scholars of Spain, as well as those working in comparative European history.
Constructing Spanish Womanhood
Author: Victoria Lorée EndersPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791440292
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The first anthology in English on modern Spanish women's history and identity formation.
The Educated Woman
Author: Katharina RowoldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134625847
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.