1st Edition
Staging Violence Gender and Social Control in Jácaras and Entremeses
By Tania de Miguel Magro
Copyright 2021
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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Staging Violence explores gender violence in Spanish early modern short theater.
This book deals with domestic violence against women, extortion of prostitutes, and violence against men who display non-conventional forms of masculinity. The author argues that many " jácaras " and " entremeses " stage subversive discourses that repudiate or complicate official narratives of gender and... Read more
Introduction: Gender, Violence, and Theater in Early Modern Spain Part 1. On Violence Against Women 1. Women and Domestic Violence in Early Modern Spain 2. Wife Battering in the Entremeses 3. Prostitution in the Underworld of the Jácaras Part 2. On Violence Against Men 4. Renegotiating Masculinity in the Advent of Modernity 5. Lindos, Sodomites, Cross-dressers, and Impotent Men 6. Juan Rana: Neither Nor Afterword
Biography
Tania de Miguel Magro is Associate Professor at West Virginia University, where she teaches courses on Spanish literature and culture. Her main area of study is early modern Spanish theater, with an emphasis on issues of gender and social struggles.
