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Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture, 1880-1975

Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture, 1880-1975

Soria, Mar

Hardcover

Series: New Hispanisms

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1496217667
ISBN13: 9781496217660
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: May 1 2020
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mar Soria presents an innovative cultural analysis of female workers in Spanish literature and films. Drawing from nation-building theories, the work of feminist geographers, and ideas about the construction of the marginal subject in society, Soria examines how working women were perceived as Other in Spain from 1880 to 1975.

By studying the representation of these marginalized individuals in a diverse array of cultural artifacts, Soria contends that urban women workers symbolized the desires and anxieties of a nation caught between traditional values and rapidly shifting socioeconomic forces. Specifically, the representation of urban female work became a mode of reinforcing and contesting dominant discourses of gender, class, space, and nationhood in critical moments after 1880, when social and economic upheavals resulted in fears of impending national instability. Through these cultural artifacts Spaniards wrestled with the unresolved contradictions in the gender and class ideologies used to construct and maintain the national imaginary.

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