Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850-1910

by Lee Skinner

Nineteenth-century Spanish American writers reimagined gender roles, modernization, and national identity during Spanish America's uneven transition toward modernity. This ambitious volume surveys an expansive and diverse range of countries across the nineteenth-century Spanish-colonized Americas, showing how both men and women used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women at all levels of social and even political life in the modern,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813064066
• ISBN13: 9780813064062
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"