Simón-Alegre, Ana I.
(ed.)
Charnon-Deutsch, Lou
(ed.)
Editorial: Routledge
Colección: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Número de páginas: 186 págs.
Fecha de edición: 31-05-2023
EAN: 9781032154800
ISBN: 978-1-032-15480-0
Precio (sin IVA): 41,63 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 43,30 €
This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity. It brings together writers who are not commonly associated with each other, but whose voices overlap, allowing us to foreground their unconventionality, their relationships to each other, and their relation to modernity.
The objective of this volume is to explore how the idea of "queerness" played an important role in the personal lives and social activism of these writers, as well as in the unconventional and nonconformist characters they created in their work. Together, the essays demonstrate that the concept of "queer women" is useful for investigating the evolution of women’s writing and sexual identity during the period of Spain’s fitful transition to modernity in the nineteenth century.