CHRISTINE ARKINSTALL
u003cpu003eThe ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. u003ciu003eWomen on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Centuryu003c/iu003e explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eReshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain's u003ciu003efin de siècleu003c/iu003e, this book examines works by notable writers - including Rosario de Acuña, Blanca de los Rios, Concepción Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women's representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies. u003c/pu003e
