Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Culture: Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities

by Radost Rangelova

This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyzes gendered geographies and forms of emotional labor, and the possibility that they generate within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel. It argues that by challenging traditional images of femininity texts by authors and film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469626160
• ISBN13: 9781469626161
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.1"