1st Edition

Gypsies in Madrid Sex, Gender and the Performance of Identity

By Paloma Gay y Blasco Copyright 1999
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

Throughout the twentieth century, Spanish people have deployed conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political supremacy within the state. The Spanish Gypsies or Gitanos, who live at the very bottom of the Spanish socio-economic scale, have appropriated this concern with gender morality and, in the process, have reinvented themselves as the only honourable Spaniards. Although the... Read more
Part 1 Gypsies in Contemporary Spain, Part 2 The Performance of Moraility: Dual Moral Standards, Part 3 The Performance of Morality: Patrilinearity, Conflict and Masculinity.

Biography

Paloma Gay y Blasco University of St Andrews