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Sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain : Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform

Title: Sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain : Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform / Alison Sinclair.
Author: Sinclair, Alison, 1946-
Publication: Cardiff [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2007.

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Description

xii, 263 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book examines issues of sex and society in early twentieth-century Spain, with particular emphasis on eugenics and the sex reform movement. As a central narrative thread it uses the specific case history of Hildegart Rodriguez (1914-33), a 'eugenic' child who came to be one of the central players in the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR) and was made tragically famous when murdered by her mother. In the last two years of her life Hildegart was in correspondence with the English sexologist Havelock Ellis. Her letters to him, reproduced in the appendix, provide a unique source for understanding the WLSR in Spain, its complexities, and its relationship to similar movements elsewhere in Europe. The letters also make it possible to glimpse in poignant and dramatic detail the personal tensions and anxieties in the life of this young woman that was brought to such a premature end."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Iberian and Latin American studies

Uniform Title

Iberian and Latin American studies

Alternative Title

Hildegart Rodríguez and the World League for Sexual Reform

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.

Contents

Chapter 1 The Face of Reform in Europe and the Spanish Case 5 -- Chapter 2 Conception of Reform 23 -- Chapter 3 Growing up under the Dictatorship 41 -- Chapter 4 Coming to Maturity and the Limits of Tolerance 63 -- Chapter 5 Hildegart's 'child', the Spanish Liga 85 -- Chapter 6 The Liga Speaks 103 -- Chapter 7 Writing to the 'fairy god' 123 -- Chapter 8 Filicide: Perfection and Eugenic Death 147 -- Appendix I Hildegart's Letters 163 -- Appendix II Brief Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Figures Mentioned in the Text 217.

ISBN

9780708320174
0708320171

OCLC

ocm77796173
77796173
SCSB-1438709

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library