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Sex and Society in Early Twentieth Century Spain: Hildegart Rodriguez and the World League for Sexual Reform (Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Author(s): Alison Sinclair (Author)
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication Date: 5 July 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 263 pages
- ISBN-10: 0708320171
- ISBN-13: 9780708320174
Book Description
This book examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, using a specific case history, namely that of Hildegart Rodriguez (1914-1933) who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) and made famous by her dramatic demise when murdered by her mother. A unique contribution is its use of Hildegart’s correspondence with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis, which provides evidence for understanding the WLSR in Spain and its links with similar movements elsewhere in Europe. The correspondence with Ellis allows us to glimpse in poignant and dramatic detail the personal tensions and anxieties in the life of this young woman.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is a substantial and impeccable monograph. It does justice to a figure who has hitherto been only partially rescued from oblivion and often wrongly narrated, and it deploys for us an intellectual world that is not only Peninsular but also part of a European system of thought with which Hildegart was keen to be in dialogue and out of which she came to exist. –Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, Modern Language Review, 104.1, 2009
About the Author
Alison Sinclair is Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at Clare College Cambridge.
