1st Edition
Women and Bullfighting Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition
By Sarah Pink
Copyright 1997
256 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture, which has been framed by a discourse of 'traditionalist' masculinity. This examination of the changing situation of women in the bullfighting world is used to explore the ways in which gender is represented, enacted and negotiated in contemporary Spain. The bullfight in the 1990s is in an... Read more
Part 1 Setting the scene: prologue - constructing femininity and inventing tradition; introduction - a "world of bullfighting". Part 2 Rethinking gender and bullfighting in Andalusia: slaying anthropology's goat - men, women and reputation in Andalusia; gender, bullfighting and anthropology - theorizing women bullfighters. Part 3 Detras de la Barrera? Women off stage and women creeping out from behind the scenes: wife, seductress, mother and the beautiful spectator - representations of femininities and "tradition"; active "Aficonadas" - a gendered lens on a photographic ritual. Part 4 Women performers - from the public arena to a domestic screen: gender, power and access to the arena - media, experience and representations of self; "Toreras" and "trajes" - dressing up in the names of history; breasts in the bullring - female physiology, women bullfighters and competing femininities; from ritual performance to media commodity - women performers and media events. Part 5 Conclusions: modern femininities and consuming traditions. Appendix: questions of translation and terminology.
Biography
Sarah Pink Lecturer in Sociology,Loughborough University
