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Fictions of the feminine in the nineteenth-century Spanish press

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Fictions of the feminine in the nineteenth-century Spanish press / Lou Charnon-Deutsch.

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"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."--Jacket.
"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. This book will appeal to students of Spanish cultural studies and gender studies, as well as to art historians."--Jacket.

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1 Naturalization of Feminine Nature 13 -- 2 Family Values 53 -- 3 Queen's Body 85 -- 4 Economy of the Image, The Imaging of the Economy 127 -- 5 Exoticism and the Sexual Politics of Difference 175 -- 6 Death Becomes Her 223 -- Conclusion: Nuestros grabados 267.

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