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Autore |
Sinclair Alison |
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Titolo |
Sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain [[electronic resource] ] : Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform / / Alison Sinclair |
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Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-20116-4 |
0-7083-2470-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Collana |
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Iberian and Latin American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sex - Social aspects - Spain - History - 20th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Face of Reform in Europe and theSpanish Case; Conception of Reform; Growing up under the Dictatorship; Coming to Maturity and the Limits ofTolerance; Hildegart's 'child', the Spanish Liga; The Liga Speaks; Writing to the 'fairy god'; Filicide: Perfection and Eugenic Death; Hildegart's Letters; Brief Bio-Bibliographical Guide to FiguresMentioned in the Text; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, and does so by using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodríguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR). In all its diversity and with all its inbuilt contradictions the movement provides the complex backcloth for understanding the nature and activity of Hildegart, while her life in its turn demonstrates how the divers strands of the movement led to paradox and conflict. In addition to this Hildegart's correspondence w |
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