The Spanish Aristocrat's Woman

The Spanish Aristocrat's Woman
Author: Katherine Garbera
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2008-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426813791

When Count Guillermo de la Cruz announced his engagement to plain-Jane heiress Kara deMontaine just minutes after meeting her, the jet-set gaped in shock. But none was more stunned than Kara. The man of her dreams had just offered marriage—as an act of revenge against his former lover. She should have said no. But something in Gui's primal stare showed her he was far from indifferent to her. Could Kara tame this royal playboy and show Gui they could find happily ever after…with each other?

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain
Author: Allyson M. Poska
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199265313

Using a wide array of archival documentation, including Inquisition records, wills, dowry contracts, folklore, and court cases, Poska examines how early modern Spanish peasant women asserted and perceived their authority within the family and community and how the large numbers of female-headed households in the region functioned in the absence of men.

Framing Majismo

Framing Majismo
Author: Tara Zanardi
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271076682

Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, majismo conferred on Spanish “citizens” the pictorial ideal of a shared national character. In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles’ fascination with and appropriation of the practices and types associated with majismo, as well as how this connection cultivated the formation of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and aided the Bourbons’ objective to fashion themselves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular, the book considers artistic and literary representations of the majo and the maja, purportedly native types who embodied and performed uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, national character, and noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were contrasted with those regarded as “foreign,” finding that “foreign” and “national” bodies were frequently described and depicted in similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances of bodily representation, ultimately showing how the body and the emergent nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical moment for both.

Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World

Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
Author: Anne J. Cruz
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1409427145

This volume presents writings pertaining to women's rich and diverse participation--despite male cultural domination--in the realms of both reading and writing. Arrangement is in sections on the practices of women's literacy, the role of women in convents, and exemplary women and their works--Lope de Vega, Ana Caro, and Maria de Zayas, among others.

Aristocratic Women in Ireland, 1450-1660

Aristocratic Women in Ireland, 1450-1660
Author: Damien Duffy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783275936

An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests.

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
Author: Barbara Jean Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2002
Genre: Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN: 0195056205

This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.

Protecting the Spanish Woman

Protecting the Spanish Woman
Author: Xabier Granja Ibarreche
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1647790859

An important contribution to the study of women writers. María de Zayas is unique in the seventeenth century as the only Spanish woman to write a collection of exemplary novels whose quality is often compared to Miguel de Cervantes’ masterful works. Her two main collections of short stories, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and Desengaños amorosos, encompass a social critique based on literary fiction that exposes flaws in the idealized archetypes of masculine identity in early modern Spain. Zayas’s stories redefine women’s patriarchal disadvantage as a tool to expose the ways in which early modern Spanish women could be empowered to counteract men’s discursive and political authority, which they use to unfairly maintain their own social privilege. Xabier Granja Ibarreche explores how Zayas defies Spanish hegemony by manipulating and transforming the ideals of courtly masculinity that had been popularized by conduct manuals and the traits they specified for appropriate noble comportment. In doing so, Zayas elaborates a nonofficial discourse throughout plots that subvert patriarchal hierarchies: she rearticulates the existing ideological order to empower women who are no longer willing to remain silent and oppressed by masculine domination after centuries of failing to attain a sufficiently self-sufficient political position to ascend in the social hierarchy. By inverting the male gaze that assumes masculinity as a preeminent identity, Zayas subverts the patriarchal subject/masculine, object/feminine order and destabilizes manly superiority as a basic universal reality, thereby empowering and unshackling Spanish women to liberate Iberian culture from the repressive and pernicious future she forebodes.

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000
Author: K. Schutte
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137327804

Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.

The Adulteress on the Spanish Stage

The Adulteress on the Spanish Stage
Author: Tracie Amend
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2015-05-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786496924

As early as 1760 and as late as 1920, Romantic drama dominated Peninsular Spanish theater. This love affair with Romanticism influenced the formation of Spain's modern national identity, which depended heavily on defining women's place in 19th century society. Women who defied traditional gender roles became a source of anxiety in society and on stage. The adulteress embodied the fear of rebellious women, the growing pains of modernity and the political instability of war and invasion. This book examines the conflicted portrayal of women and the Spanish national identity. Studying the adulteress on stage, the author provides insight into the uneasy tension between progress and tradition in 19th century Spain.

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

Geographies of Urban Female Labor and Nationhood in Spanish Culture, 1880–1975
Author: Mar Soria
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 149621997X

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. ? Whether for reasons of inattention or disregard of issues surrounding class dynamics, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary and cultural critics have assumed that working women played only a minimal role in the development of Spain as a modern nation. As a result, relatively few critics have investigated cultural narratives of female labor during this period. Soria demonstrates that without considering the role working women played in the construction and modernization of Spain, our understanding of Spanish culture and life at that time remains incomplete.