Women Poets of Spain, 1860-1990: Toward a Gynocentric Vision

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University of Illinois Press, 1997 - 366 páginas
This is the first volume-in English or Spanish-to analyze the work of the principal women poets of Modern Spain. In it, John Wilcox draws on recent feminist critical theory and shows how Spanish poetry by women is not just a modern phenomenon but an ignored tradition whose roots reach back to the very beginnings of poetry of the Iberian Peninsula.
 

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Página 14 - Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies — for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text — as into the world and into history — by her own movement.
Página 37 - Vete con Dios, pastorcillo, no te sabes entender, hermosuras de mi cuerpo yo te las hiciera ver: delgadica en la cintura, blanca soy como el papel, la color tengo mezclada como rosa en el rosel, el cuello tengo de garza, los ojos de un esparver, las teticas agudicas que el brial quieren romper, pues lo que tengo encubierto maravilla es de lo ver.
Página 34 - To write. An act which will not only 'realize' the decensored relation of woman to her sexuality, to her womanly being, giving her access to her native strength; it will give her back her goods, her pleasures, her organs, her immense bodily territories which have been kept under seal...
Página 23 - ¿O cuál es más de culpar, aunque cualquiera mal haga, la que peca por la paga o el que paga por pecar?
Página 25 - Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men, Such a presumptuous creature, is esteem'd, The fault can by no vertue be redeem'd.
Página 32 - The repeated finding of these studies is that the qualities deemed necessary for adulthood — the capacity for autonomous thinking, clear decision-making, and responsible action — are those associated with masculinity and considered undesirable as attributes of the feminine self. The stereotypes suggest a splitting of love and work that relegates expressive capacities to women while placing instrumental abilities in the masculine domain. Yet looked at from a different perspective, these stereotypes...

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