Deviant and Useful Citizens explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru, which until 1776 comprised modern-day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Author Mariselle Meléndez introduces the reader to a female rebel, Micaela Bastidas, whose brutal punishment became a particularly harsh example of state response to women who challenged the system. She explores the cultural representation of women depicted as economically productive and vital to the health of the culture at large. The role of women in religious orders provides still another window into the vital need to sustain the image of women as loyal and devout--and to deal with women who refused to comply. The book focuses on the different ways male authorities, as well as female subjects, conceived the female body as deeply connected to notions of what constituted a useful or deviant citizen within the Viceroyalty. Using eighteenth-century legal documents, illustrated chronicles, religious texts, and newspapers, Meléndez explores in depth the representation of the female body in periods of political, economic, and religious transformation to determine how it was conceived within certain contexts. Deviant and Useful Citizens presents a highly complex society that relied on representations of utility and productivity to understand the female body, as it reveals the surprisingly large stake that colonial authorities had in defining the status of women during a crucial time in South American history.

Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru

Literature & Fiction

Meléndez, Mariselle

History & Criticism

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

Review\n"Scholars of late nineteenth-century fin-de-siècle European literature, comparative literature of this era, modern Spanish literature, and women's studies will find much useful information about hysteria, mysticism, and the relationship between the two." 
--Elizabeth Smith Rousselle, author of Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920\nWomen, 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.\nAuthor 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.

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

History

Smith, Jennifer

Europe

Copyright in Historical Perspective

Patterson, L. Ray

Business & Money

In the 1890s Nashville, Tennessee had already developed into a bustling center of trade and industry. NASHVILLE IN THE 1890s is a memento of that era. An outgrowth of the Vanderbilt Oral History project, established in 1950, this book tells the events large and small--the cataclysms and commonplaces--that distinguished life in the nineties. From mumblety-peg to the Centennial, from a "storebought" jacket to the Panic of 1893, from filling coal boxes to the Spanish-American War, this book recreates the aura of Nashville's elegant era.

Nashville, 1900 to 1910

Waller, William

Americas

The biography of a lifelong intransigent--unruly child, recalcitrant schoolboy, neighborhood bully, rabble-rousing journalist, obstreperous local leader of right-wing extremists, provincial arm of Mussolini, Secretary General of the Italian Fascist Party, fanatical Minister of State under Mussolini's dictatorship.

Mussolini's Gadfly: Roberto Farinacci

Fornari, Harry

Biographies & Memoirs

Snake-handlers and faith-healers, tent meetings and river baptisms, impoverished country churches and imposing city edifices all are elements of that segment of American protestanism known as the "minor sects." These religions--Church of Christ, Assembly of God, Free Will Baptist, Cumberland Presbyterian, and the many Holiness and Pentecostal churches, among other lesser-known bodies--make up a significant majoirty among the more than 67 million United States protestants. Generally considered churches of the lower classes--the "common man"--these sects have been stereotyped as theologically conservative, socially reactionary, and racially bigoted. WHITE SECTS AND BLACK MEN examines sectarian attitues and behavior during the period following World War II.

White Sects & Black Men in the Recent South

Harrell, David E., Jr.

Religion & Spirituality

Photographs capture the social and spiritual lives of the author's family and friends in Appalachia during the 1920's

Tennessee Hill Folk, with essay by Jesse Stuart

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

North for Union: John Appleton's Journal of a Tour to New England Made by President Polk in June and July 1847

Cutler, Wayne

Historical

Blossoms and Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O'Keeffe

Buckley, Christopher

Literary

The Roots of Walden and the Tree of Life

Boudreau, Gordon V.

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