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The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic
Aurora G. Morcillo
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 338 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
This book examines how sexual politics, specifically those surrounding the modernization of a consumer economy, are key to understanding the transformation of Spain from isolated dictatorship to modern state. It focuses on issues concerning modernity and the commodification of the female body under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in the 1950s and 1960s. These two decades are critical to understanding this transformation because they coincide with the opening of markets, the freer movement of people in and out of the country through tourism and emigration, and the embracing of the 'American way of life' popularized in Hollywood movies. From a ... Read more
This book examines how sexual politics, specifically those surrounding the modernization of a consumer economy, are key to understanding the transformation of Spain from isolated dictatorship to modern state. It focuses on issues concerning modernity and the commodification of the female body under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in the 1950s and 1960s. These two decades are critical to understanding this transformation because they coincide with the opening of markets, the freer movement of people in and out of the country through tourism and emigration, and the embracing of the 'American way of life' popularized in Hollywood movies. From a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483437
SKU
V9781611483437
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About Aurora G. Morcillo
Aurora G. Morcillo is associate professor of history and women's studies at Florida International University in Miami.
Reviews for The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic
Morcillo (history and women's studies, Florida International U.) explores the gender politics of Spain's Franco dictatorship, focusing on the interplay between the metaphorical use of gender imagery in the political discourse of the 'nation' and the ways that attempts to discipline and control women's bodies were an essential part of the (Foucauldian) 'bio-power' deployed by the Franco regime as Spain ... Read more