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This book explores the figure of the modern woman in the essays and fiction of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s. It examines in depth the author's theories of gender in light of the basic principles of anarchist political thought and philosophy. In addition, Montseny's novels are shown to engage in an elaborate and critical dialogue with scientific and cultural discourses on women that proliferated during the first four decades of the 20th century. Montseny's ideal modern woman is not a static and definite figure; rather, she shifts across different and at times contradictory articulations that, nonetheless, all fall within her anarchist beliefs. Montseny, a popular politician and writer during her time, developed and disseminated some of the most original concepts dealing with women's emancipation and gender theory, and the present volume is the first to situate her thought as a key component within the evolution of Spanish feminism..

Nuria Cruz-C©Łmara is Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee.

Women in literature --- Montseny, Federica --- Criticism and interpretation --- Montseny, Federica - Criticism and interpretation --- Women in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Mañé, Federica Montseny, --- Montseny Mañé, Federica, --- Montseny, Frederica, --- 1920s. --- 1930s. --- Federica Montseny. --- Spanish anarchist leader. --- Spanish feminism. --- gender theory. --- modern woman. --- women's emancipation.

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This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power. Contributors cut across disciplinary boundaries and draw on fresh fieldwork and textual analysis, including newspaper accounts, radio reports, and feminist writing. Their subjects range widely: the writings of feminist Filipinas; Thai stories of widow ghosts; eye-witness accounts of a beheading; narratives of bewitching genitals, recalcitrant husbands, and market women as femmes fatales. Geographically, the essays cover Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The essays bring to this region the theoretical insights of gender theory, political economy, and cultural studies. Gender and other forms of inequality and difference emerge as changing systems of symbols and meanings. Bodies are explored as sites of political, economic, and cultural transformation. The issues raised in these pages make important connections between behavior, bodies, domination, and resistance in this dynamic and vibrant region.

Power (Social sciences) --- Sex role --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Southeast Asia --- Social life and customs. --- Power (Christian theology) --- Power (Mechanics) --- Power (Philosophy) --- Power resources --- Energy --- Mechanics --- Power (Theology) --- Christian sociology --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Authority --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- analysis. --- asian culture. --- asian history. --- biology. --- cultural studies. --- essay anthology. --- essay collection. --- eyewitness. --- femininity. --- fieldwork. --- gender construct. --- gender studies. --- gender theory. --- gender. --- ghosts. --- human body. --- indonesia. --- inequality. --- international. --- literary analysis. --- literary criticism. --- malaysia. --- marriage. --- masculinity. --- nature vs nurture. --- philippines. --- political economy. --- singapore. --- southeast asia. --- supernatural. --- thailand. --- transnational. --- true story. --- widow.

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This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed-the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers-as plaint and confession-but rather from the viewpoint of the women-thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation-James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before.

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