Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain: Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform

by Alison Sinclair

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783164899
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Publication date:	09/15/2007
Series:	Iberian and Latin American Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	744 KB

About the Author

Alison Sinclair is professor of modern Spanish literature and intellectual history at Clare College, University of Cambridge and the author of Uncovering the Mind:  Unamuno, the Unknown, and the Vicissitudes of Self.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword     ix
Acknowledgements     xi
Introduction     1
The Face of Reform in Europe and the Spanish Case     5
Conception of Reform     23
Growing up under the Dictatorship     41
Coming to Maturity and the Limits of Tolerance     63
Hildegart's 'child', the Spanish Liga     85
The Liga Speaks     103
Writing to the 'fairy god'     123
Filicide: Perfection and Eugenic Death     147
Hildegart's Letters     163
Brief Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Figures Mentioned in the Text     217
Bibliography     233
Index     245