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Article: Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modem Spain.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2000
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Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modem Spain. Edited by Victoria Loree Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff (Albany, New York: State University Press of New York, 1998. xiv plus 443pp.).
This collection of essays explores the gender ideology of separate spheres and its relationship to lived experience and identity construction in modern Spain. Spanish women are shown here to have frequently operated beyond the rigid private and domestic areas that the two spheres model implies, laying to rest what was left of the notion that Spanish women were locked in "traditional" roles until the last quarter of the twentieth century. Victoria Loree Enders and ...