Staging Violence: Gender and Social Control in Jácaras and Entremeses

by Tania de Miguel Magro

Staging Violence explores gender violence in Spanish early modern short theater.

This book deals with domestic violence against women, extortion of prostitutes, and violence against men who display non-conventional forms of masculinity. The author argues that many "j caras" and "entremeses" stage subversive discourses that repudiate or complicate official narratives of gender and the use of violence as a tool for achieving gender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367180537
• ISBN13: 9780367180539
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"