Women and Bullfighting - Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition

List of contents

Part 1 Setting the scene: prologue - constructing femininity and inventing tradition; introduction - a "world of bullfighting". Part 2 Rethinking gender and bullfighting in Andalusia: slaying anthropology's goat - men, women and reputation in Andalusia; gender, bullfighting and anthropology - theorizing women bullfighters. Part 3 Detras de la Barrera? Women off stage and women creeping out from behind the scenes: wife, seductress, mother and the beautiful spectator - representations of femininities and "tradition"; active "Aficonadas" - a gendered lens on a photographic ritual. Part 4 Women performers - from the public arena to a domestic screen: gender, power and access to the arena - media, experience and representations of self; "Toreras" and "trajes" - dressing up in the names of history; breasts in the bullring - female physiology, women bullfighters and competing femininities; from ritual performance to media commodity - women performers and media events. Part 5 Conclusions: modern femininities and consuming traditions. Appendix: questions of translation and terminology.

About the author

Sarah Pink Lecturer in Sociology,Loughborough University

Summary

This book investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture, which has been framed by a discourse of 'traditionalist' masculinity.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Pink, Pink Sarah
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1997
• EAN: 9781859739563
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-956-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Mediterranea
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, NATURE / Animals / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, PERFORMING ARTS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Mediterranean Sea, Animals & society, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Animals and society, Animal spectacles, performing animals, Animal Spectacles