| Language Attitudes, National Identity and Migration in Catalonia: What the Women Have to Say Contributor(s): Iveson, Mandie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845199235 ISBN-13: 9781845199234 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Social Science | Regional Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 2018039890 |
| Series: Canada Blanch / Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spai |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.70 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines language, nation, and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates to what extent women use Catalan in their everyday social practices to construct gendered and national identities. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, the focus of the study is three female 'generations', covering 50 years of historical change from the 1960s to the present. Mandie Iveson analyzes the preservation of the Catalan language during Franco's regime; how the emergence of a feminist movement and discourse, and changing patterns of migration, have transformed the relationship between gender and national identity in Catalonia; and the role that Catalan plays today in defining women's identities. Additional analysis of a corpus of social media data explores the online Catalan discourses of nationalism and its gendered dimensions. |