Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2012
Summary
To escape the heat of an August day in Madrid, Maite Zubiaurre ducked into an antique shop and there among world globes and old maps, she discovered a peculiar photo album. Tucked away among formal photos of King Alphonso XIII and Queen Isabel II was a whole collection of images of naked women and men. And, unlike the King, these women and men were not just posing. Rather they were engaged in a variety of “unnatural” sex acts, acts clearly at odds with the Spanish Catholic Church’s doctrine t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780826516961 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0826516963 |
| Author: | Maite Zubiaurre |
| Publisher: | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Imprint: | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 1.43kg |
| Dimensions: | 256mm x 175mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
“Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939 will change forever the way we view early twentieth-century Spanish culture. Zubiaurre trains a sharp eye for telling details on a wide array of erotic popular culture–sex advice manuals, novelettes, magazines, postcards, photographs. The book unveils the internationalist, playful, titillating side of a Spain we have up to now associated only with ‘serious’ art and writing.”
–Roberta Johnson, emeritus professor of the University of Kansas and author of Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel
“An engrossing tour through the tantalizing visual and literary culture of an era, Maite Zubiaurre’s Cultures of the Erotic in Spain: 1898-1939 will certainly reshape how scholars understand the first half of the Spanish twentieth century.”
–Literal Magazine
About The Author
Maite Zubiaurre
Maite Zubiaurre, Professor of Spanish and German Letters at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939, also published by Vanderbilt.
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