Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain: Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain: Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform
By (Author) Alison Sinclair
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
23rd August 2007
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
European history
Social and cultural history
306.7094609041
Physical Properties
Hardback
192
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
467g
Description
Examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodriguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) and made famous by her dramatic demise when murdered by her mother.
Reviews
'This is a substantial and impeccable monograph. It does justice to a figure who has hitherto been only partially rescued from oblivion and often wrongly narrated, and it deploys for us an intellectual world that is not only Peninsular but also part of a European system of thought with which Hildegart was keen to be in dialogue and out of which she came to exist.' Nuria Capdevila-Arguelles, Modern Language Review, 104.1, 2009
Author Bio
Alison Sinclair is Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at Clare College Cambridge.
