Author : Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Release : 2010-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press write by Lou Charnon-Deutsch. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.