Author: Victoria SauPublisher: Icaria Editorial
ISBN: 9788474261219
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 132
Book Description
Ser mujer, el fin de una imagen tradicional
Author: Victoria SauPublisher: Icaria Editorial
ISBN: 9788474261219
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 132
Book Description
Honour and Disgrace
Author: Isabel Pérez MolinaPublisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581121296
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This study analyses the legal condition of women in Catalonia, Spain, in the early modern ages, particularly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by way of the study of primary legal sources. The legal discourse was conceived as being different for men and women: women were treated as a specific social category, were judicially discriminated against and were given inferior legal personality. Following the moral discourse of the time, jurists classified women as honest and dishonest, and tried to establish a physical and legal barrier to divide the good from the bad. As a result, women were before the law, pawns for male decisions. However, women did not easily comply with the submissive role attributed to them and, as civil lawsuits show, often they used the law that discriminated them in their own benefit.
The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain
Author: Grace E. CoolidgePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317031458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Drawing on history, literature, and art to explore childhood in early modern Spain, the contributors to this collection argue that early modern Spaniards conceptualized childhood as a distinct and discrete stage in life which necessitated special care and concern. The volume contrasts the didactic use of art and literature with historical accounts of actual children, and analyzes children in a wide range of contexts including the royal court, the noble family, and orphanages. The volume explores several interrelated questions that challenge both scholars of Spain and scholars specializing in childhood. How did early modern Spaniards perceive childhood? In what framework (literary, artistic) did they think about their children, and how did they visualize those children’s roles within the family and society? How do gender and literary genres intersect with this concept of childhood? How did ideas about childhood shape parenting, parents, and adult life in early modern Spain? How did theories about children and childhood interact with the actual experiences of children and their parents? The group of international scholars contributing to this book have developed a variety of creative, interdisciplinary approaches to uncover children’s lives, the role of children within the larger family, adult perceptions of childhood, images of children and childhood in art and literature, and the ways in which children and childhood were vulnerable and in need of protection. Studying children uncovers previously hidden aspects of Spanish history and allows the contributors to analyze the ideals and goals of Spanish culture, the inner dynamics of the Habsburg court, and the vulnerabilities and weaknesses that Spanish society fought to overcome.
Gender Violence at the U.S.--Mexico Border
Author: HŽctor Dom’nguez-RuvalcabaPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816527121
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The U.S.ÐMexico border is frequently presented by contemporary media as a violent and dangerous place. But that is not a new perception. For decades the border has been constructed as a topographic metaphor for all forms of illegality, in which an ineffable link between space and violence is somehow assumed. The sociological and cultural implications of violence have recently emerged at the forefront of academic discussions about the border. And yet few studies have been devoted to one of its most disturbing manifestations: gender violence. This book analyzes this pervasive phenomenon, including the femicides in Ciudad Ju‡rez that have come to exemplify, at least for the media, its most extreme manifestation. Contributors to this volume propose that the study of gender-motivated violence requires interpretive and analytical strategies that draw on methods reaching across the divide between the social sciences and the humanities. Through such an interdisciplinary conversation, the book examines how such violence is (re)presented in oral narratives, newspaper reports, films and documentaries, novels, TV series, and legal discourse. It also examines the role that the media have played in this process, as well as the legal initiatives that might address this pressing social problem. Together these essays offer a new perspective on the implications of, and connections between, gendered forms of violence and topics such as mechanisms of social violence, the micro-social effects of economic models, the asymmetries of power in local, national, and transnational configurations, and the particular rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics of discourses that represent violence.
Women's World
Author: Oral Tradition and Hispanic Literature
Author: Mishael CaspiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815320623
Category : Oral tradition in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
S.E.C.O.L.A.S.
Author: Southeastern Council on Latin American StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Search for Identity in the Narrative of Rosa Montero
Author: Vanessa KnightsPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Rosa Montero is one of a group of women writers who came to prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period often referred to as the boom of women's writing in Spain. This study traces the socio- historical conditions which led to the boom, addresses the Spanish ambivalence towards the mother figure within the Spanish feminist movement, and discusses the use of metafiction on the creation of life narrative for women. Deals with the alternative figure of the spinster, examines the fantastic as a mode of discourse, and discusses the increasing focus on discourse with Montero's narrative. The author teaches contemporary Hispanic literary and cultural studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature
Author: Janet PérezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Author: