Marginal Subjects : : Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain / / Akiko Tsuchiya.

• VerfasserIn: Tsuchiya, Akiko,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman-and her counterpart, the feminized man -...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Credits
• Note on the Translations
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Discourses on Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain
• 1. The Deviant Female Body under Surveillance: Galdós's La desheredada
• 2. 'Las Micaelas por fuera y por dentro': Discipline and Resistance in Fortunata y Jacinta
• 3. Consuming Subjects: Female Reading and Deviant Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain
• 4. Gender Trouble and the Crisis of Masculinity in the fin de siglo: Clarín's Su único hijo and Pardo Bazán's Memorias de un solterón
• 5. Gender, Orientalism, and the Performance of National Identity in Pardo Bazán's Insolación
• 6. Taming the Prostitute's Body: Desire, Knowledge, and the Naturalist Gaze in López Bago's La prostituta Series
• 7. Female Subjectivity and Agency in Matilde Cherner's María Magdalena
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index