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Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

By: Marta V. Vicente

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Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

By: Marta V. Vicente

Eighteenth-century debates continue to set the terms of modern day discussions on how 'nature and nurture' shape sex and gender. Current dialogues - from the tension between 'real' and 'ideal' bodies, to how nature and society shape sexual difference - date back to the early modern period. Debating Sex and Gender is an innovative study of the creation of a two-sex model of human sexuality based on different genitalia within Spain, reflecting the enlightened quest to promote social reproduction and stability. Drawing on primary sources such as medical treatises and legal literature, Vicente traces the lives of individuals whose ambiguous sex and gender made them examples for physicians, legislators and educators for how nature, family upbringing, education, and the social environment shaped an individual's sex. This book brings together insights from the histories of sexuality, medicine and the law to shed new light on this timely and important field of study.

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Cambridge University Press

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110850972X

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9781108509725

Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World

By: Marta V. Vicente,Luis R. Corteguera

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Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World

By: Marta V. Vicente,Luis R. Corteguera

This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. The contributors examine women and the construction of gender thematically, dealing with the areas of politics, law, religion, sexuality, literature and economics, and in a variety of social categories, from Christians and Moriscas, queens and merchants, peasants and visionaries, heretics and madwomen. The essays cover different regions in the Spanish monarchy, including Andalusia, Aragon, Castile, Catalonia, Valencia and Spanish America, from the fifteenth century through to the eighteenth century. Women, Texts and Authority in Early Modern Spain focuses on two central themes: gender relations in the shaping of family and community life, and women's authority in spheres of power. The representation of women in a variety of texts such as poetry, court cases, or even account books illustrate the multifaceted world in which women lived, constantly choosing and negotiating their identities. The appeal of this collection is not limited to scholars of Spanish history and literature; it is deliberately designed to address the issue of how gender relations were constructed in the formation of modern society, and therefore will be of interest to scholars of women's and gender history generally. Because of the emphasis on how this construction occurs in texts, the collection will also be attractive to scholars interested in literary studies and/or print culture.

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Routledge

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1351871390

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9781351871396

Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

By: Marta V. Vicente

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Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World

Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World

Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

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