The Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic

by Aurora G. Morcillo

This book examines how sexual politics, specifically those surrounding the modernization of a consumer economy, are key to understanding the transformation of Spain from isolated dictatorship to modern state. It focuses on issues concerning modernity and the commodification of the female body under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in the 1950s and 1960s. These two decades are critical to understanding this transformation because they coincide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611483433
• ISBN13: 9781611483437
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"