Marginal Subjects - Gender and Deviance in Fin-De-Siecle Spain

Informationen zum Autor By Akiko Tsuchiya Klappentext In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman--and her counterpart, the feminized man - revealed the ambivalence of literary writers towards new methods of social control in Restoration Spain. Zusammenfassung In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman-and her counterpart, the feminized man - revealed the ambivalence of literary writers towards new methods of social control in Restoration Spain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Credits Notes on the Translations List of Illustrations Introduction:  Discourses on Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain The Deviant Female Body Under Surveillance: Galdós´s La desheredada “Las Micaelas por fuera y por dentro”: Discipline and Resistance in Fortunata y Jacinta Consuming Subjects:  Female Reading and Deviant Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain Gender Trouble and the Crisis of Masculinity in the fin-de-siglo: Clarín’s Su único hijo and Pardo Bazán’s Memorias de un solterón Gender, Orientalism, and the Performance of National Identity in Pardo Bazán’s Insolación Taming the Prostitute’s Body: Desire, Knowledge, and the Naturalist Gaze in López Bago’s La prostituta series Female Subjectivity and Agency in Matilde Cherner’s María Magdalena Conclusion Works Cited

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• Authors: Akiko Tsuchiya
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9781442642942
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4294-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance; University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories