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Violets and abolition : The discourse on slavery in Faustina Saez de Melgar's magazine La Violeta (1862-1866)

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09/2012
Author
Partzsch, Henriette Anna Margarete
Keywords
Nineteenth-century Spanish women writers
Racism
Class
Gender
Press
Ladies’ abolitionist society
Rogelia Léon
Faustina Sáez de Melgar
Abolitionism
PQ Romance literatures
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Although the commitment of several nineteenth-century Spanish women writers to abolitionism is a well-established fact, not much is known about the concrete forms their engagement took in a society in which the bourgeois ideology of woman as the angel in the house played a prominent role. The close study of the weekly magazine La Violeta (1862-66), directed by Faustina Sáez de Melgar, shows how the active and public support for this international cause was linked to the development of a model of compassionate intervention by women, most notably formulated by the magazine's regular contributor Rogelia León in response to the very mixed reviews of the foundational meeting of a ladies' abolitionist society. The press coverage of this event clearly demonstrates how political conflict is cast in terms of gender and class and used to threaten middle-class women who step into the political sphere. The analysis of the discourse on slavery reveals an equal importance of both categories in La Violeta, together with the patronising and casual racism of its authors.
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Partzsch , H A M 2012 , ' Violets and abolition : The discourse on slavery in Faustina Saez de Melgar's magazine La Violeta (1862-1866) ' , Bulletin of Spanish Studies , vol. 89 , no. 6 , pp. 859-875 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2012.712322
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Bulletin of Spanish Studies
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2012.712322
ISSN
1475-3820
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Journal article
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Copyright (c) 2012 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article. For full terms and conditions of use, see: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions esp. Part II. Intellectual property and access and license types, § 11. (c) Open Access Content
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3507

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