Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910
232 pages, 6 x 9
3 b/w illus
Paperback
Release Date:06 Nov 2018
ISBN:9780813064062
Hardcover
Release Date:30 Aug 2016
ISBN:9780813062846
Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910
By Lee Skinner
University Press of Florida
This ambitious volume shows how nineteenth-century Spanish American writers used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women at all levels of social and even political life in the modern, utopian nation. Looking at texts ranging from novels and essays to newspaper articles and advertisements, and with special attention to public and private space, domesticity, education, technology, and work, Skinner identifies gender as a central concern at every level of society.
Looks at how men and women writers in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Latin America understood the role of women in the advancement of their countries as they entered modernity. . . . Reveals how gender became the eye of a longstanding social storm.'—Choice ‘Illustrates convincingly how women’s role in society became a crucial battleground in determining contemporary projects of national modernization across Latin America. . . . A significant contribution that will engage both specialists in modern Latin American studies and scholars from other disciplines.’—Modernism/Modernity
Whether considering public or private spaces, domesticity, work, or education, this book provides sophisticated readings of a broad range of narratives that illustrate the tensions brought about in discussions of gender and its relation to modernity in Spanish America.'—Fernando Unzueta, author of La imaginación histórica y el romance nacional en Hispanoamérica 'A key resource for the study of modernity in Latin American literature and its related fields: women and gender studies, sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and beyond.'—Nancy LaGreca, author of Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903
Lee Skinner is professor of Spanish at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of History Lessons: Refiguring the Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel in Spanish America.
