Sarah Pink

Women and Bullfighting (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Sex and the Consumption of Tradition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the popularity and success of contemporary women performers in bullfighting culture, which has been framed by a discourse of 'traditionalist' masculinity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000180756
• Artikelnr.: 59751622

Autorenporträt

Sarah Pink Lecturer in Sociology,Loughborough University

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Setting the scene: prologue - constructing femininity and inventing
tradition; introduction - a "world of bullfighting". Part 2 Rethinking
gender and bullfighting in Andalusia: slaying anthropology's goat - men,
women and reputation in Andalusia; gender, bullfighting and anthropology -
theorizing women bullfighters. Part 3 Detras de la Barrera? Women off stage
and women creeping out from behind the scenes: wife, seductress, mother and
the beautiful spectator - representations of femininities and "tradition";
active "Aficonadas" - a gendered lens on a photographic ritual. Part 4
Women performers - from the public arena to a domestic screen: gender,
power and access to the arena - media, experience and representations of
self; "Toreras" and "trajes" - dressing up in the names of history; breasts
in the bullring - female physiology, women bullfighters and competing
femininities; from ritual performance to media commodity - women performers
and media events. Part 5 Conclusions: modern femininities and consuming
traditions. Appendix: questions of translation and terminology.