Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century

Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship

By: Christine Arkinstall

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Hardcover | 15 February 2023

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296 Pages

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The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women’s texts on war.

Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain’s fin de si?cle, this book examines works by notable writers – including Rosario de Acu?a, Blanca de los Rios, Concepci?n Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos – as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain’s colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women’s representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works’ overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

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