Placeholder text

Go to cart

Women and the Law

By Anja Louis

Women and the Law Law

Women and the Law

0 - Default Title
Description
This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932). Drawing on Anglo-American legal theory and Spanish historical practice, it argues that her narratives of legal critique were used as a means of political propaganda, in which she introduced the question of women's rights into the public domain. Burgos can be considered one of the most important proponents of the feminist movement in the lead-up to the Second Republic and presents a particularly interesting case study, since she combined her writing career with a political agenda. Given the remarkable similarities between de Burgos's critical analysis and recent feminist legal theory, her writings are still disturbingly relevant today. This study also explores the relationship between melodrama as a genre of manichean worldviews and law as a system of binary oppositions and discusses de Burgos's subversion of the former as a means to criticise the latter.
Anja Louis is a lecturer in the Department of Spanish at the University of Sheffield.
ReviewsShould prove invaluable to anyone working in the field of women's literature in Spain in the twentieth century. FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
Product details
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
2005-08-30
Publication Date:
2005-07-01
Publisher:
Tamesis
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1855661217
ISBN13:
9781855661219
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
461 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out