In Her Place: Geographies of Urban Female Labor in Spanish Culture (1880--1931)

"My analysis of urban female working characters reveals that middle-class representations of working women result from a dominant conceptualization of class and gendered spaces in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spain. For that reason, my thesis draws a geography of urban female labor through the analysis of the symbolic condensation of class, gender, and space in the cultural representations of urban working women. By doing so, I shed light on the ambivalent cultural location that working women have occupied in cultural representations of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Even though the construction and development of modern Spain could not have taken place without the participation working women's labor, this segment of the population has been ""out-of-place"" for too long in literary and cultural criticism. It is my hope that this dissertation will reposition these marginalized characters to their legitimate place in critical discourse."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Spanish

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Soria Lopez, Maria Del Mar

Contributors dc:contributor

• Delgado, Luisa-Elena

• Geography

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3452213

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86171