Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain Media and Popular Culture

This book examines the development of the feminine cultural tradition in Spain and how this tradition reshaped and defined a Spanish national identity. Each chapter focuses on representations of autobiography, alienation and exile, marginality, race, eroticism, political activism, and feminism within the everchanging nationalisms in different regions of Spain.

The book describes how concepts of gender and difference shaped the individual, collective, and national identites of Spanish women and significantly modified the meaning and representation of female sexuality.