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Title A companion to Spanish women's studies / edited by Xon de Ros, Geraldine Hazbun.

Publication Info. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NX562.A1 C65 2011    Available  ---
Description xvi, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Series Colección Tamesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 294
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 294.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-394) and index.
Contents Female foundations in the Libro de Alexandre and Poema de Fernán González / Geraldine Hazbun -- Desire and transgression in the female voice of early popular lyric / Mariana Masera -- From virgin martyr to holy harlot : female saints in the Middle Ages and the problem of classification / Andrew M. Beresford -- Choosing and testing spouses in medieval exemplary literature / Louise M. Haywood -- Through women's eyes : the appropriation of male discourse by three medieval women authors / Nieves Baranda -- Intellectual, contemplative, administrator : Isabel de Villena and the vindication of women / Rosanna Cantavella -- Anatomies of a saint : the unstable body of Teresa de Jesús / Georgina Dopico-Black -- Women's artistic production and their visual representation in early modern Spain / Carmen Fracchia -- The baroque and the undead : carnal knowledge in the novellas of María de Zayas / Margaret Greet -- Distinct drama? : female dramatists in Golden Age Spain / Alexander Samson -- Conversations from a distance : Spanish and French eighteenth-century women writers / Mónica Bolufer -- What they saw : women's exposure to and in visual culture in nineteenth-century Spain / Lou Charnon-Deutsch -- Luxurious borders : containment and excess in nineteenth-century Spain / Alison Sinclair -- Women as cultural agents in Spanish modernity / Susan Kirkpatrick -- Politics and the feminist essay in Spain / Joyce Tolliver -- The theatricalized self : women artists in masquerade from 1920 to the present / Roberta Ann Quance -- Gender and change : identity and reform in the Second Republic / Frances Lannon -- Invisible Catalan(e)s : Catalan women writers and the contested space of home / Helena Buffery and Laura Lonsdale -- The mother and the nation : reading contemporary women's autobiographies / Xon de Ros -- Tropes of freedom : spectacular eroticism and the Spanish new woman on-screen / Jessamy Harvey -- Almodóvar's "Others" : Spanish women film-makers, masquerade, and maternity / Jo Evans.
Summary This volume presents an overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of women's studies, including original essays by pioneering scholars as well as by younger specialists. New pathfinding models of theoretical analysis are balanced with a careful revisiting of the historical foundations of women's studies.
Subject Women artists -- Spain -- History.
Women artists.
Spain.
History.
Women authors, Spanish -- Spain -- History.
Women authors, Spanish.
Spanish literature -- History and criticism.
Spanish literature.
Arts, Medieval -- Spain -- History.
Arts, Medieval.
Arts, Modern -- History.
Arts, Modern.
Arts, Spanish -- Spain -- History.
Arts, Spanish.
Women's studies.
Women's studies.
Spain -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Added Author Ros, Xon de.
Hazbun, Geraldine.
ISBN 9781855662247
1855662248