Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain

Title: Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain
Author: Jennifer Smith
Release: 2021-06-15
Kind: ebook
Genre: European History, Books, History, Health, Mind & Body, Psychology, World History
Size: 4581797
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain was part of a larger project to suppress the growing female emancipation movement by sexualizing the female subject. This archival-historical work highlights the phenomenon in medical, social, and literary texts of the time, illustrating that despite many liberals' hostility toward the Church, secular doctors and intellectuals employed strikingly similar paradigms to those through which the early modern Spanish Church castigated female mysticism as demonic possession.

Author Jennifer Smith also directs modern historians to the writings of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) as a thinker whose work points out mysticism's subversive potential in terms of the patriarchal order. Pardo Bazán, unlike her male counterparts, rejected the hysteria diagnosis and promoted mysticism as a path for women's personal development and self-realization.

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