Background
Lou Charnon-Deutsch was born on July 2, 1946, in Illinois, United States.
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Mount Mary University
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Purdue University
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University of Chicago
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State University of New York
(Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scho...)
Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scholarship to the problems of gender representation, Charnon-Deutsch challenges the prevailing idea that the 19th-century Spanish novel is woman centered. The author's examination of novels by Valera, Pereda, Alas, and Galdos demonstrates that these works are instead a complex exploration of male identity. Decoding the gender ideology of women's roles, discourse, and representations, Charnon-Deutsch uncovers in the novels multiple configurations of androcentricity as well as voyeuristic tendencies, which she interprets as a means of mastering what is threatening to the male psyche.
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1990
(Spanish Gypsy—the words themselves conjure up the sound o...)
Spanish Gypsy—the words themselves conjure up the sound of castanets, heels tapping the floor, plaintive yet passionate singing, and the unforgettable sight of a seductive figure, back arched, skirts swirling, dancing with fierce grace. This stereotype has been all but synonymous with Spain since the nineteenth century, and there are no signs that her power as a national icon is on the wane. Surprising as it may seem, The Spanish Gypsy by Lou Charnon-Deutsch, the well-known Hispanist, is the first comprehensive history of this icon, associated in the European imagination with freedom, passion, and unconventionality. Charnon-Deutsch starts her story in the Middle Ages and proceeds to show how Europeans came to revere but also fear Gypsies because of their nomadic way of life and the freedoms it seemed to allow. Much of Charnon-Deutsch's information is drawn from historical and sociological studies, but she also proposes new readings of literature, starting with Cervantes's "Precious Jewel of Love" and moving on to the vogue for Gypsy subjects that arose in the Romantic era. This fascinating book reaches its culmination in the chapters devoted to Spain's embrace of Gypsy myth and lore. Here the range of materials broadens to include music, dance, and the visual arts. Although the primary audience for Charnon-Deutsch's study will be students of Spanish social and cultural history, it will also be essential reading for all those interested in a group of people who remain the least understood ethnic minority in Europe.
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(Hold That Pose explores the role of visual images in Spai...)
Hold That Pose explores the role of visual images in Spain’s transition to a fully modern illustrated press by the first decade of the twentieth century. It examines both the ideological impact and the technological transformation of image production in Spanish magazines during the Restoration. In the brief period of forty years, 1870 to 1910, technological and manufacturing advances revolutionized Spain’s illustrated press and consequently Europeanized the tastes and the expectations of its elite urban readership. By 1900, once subscription prices fell and magazines began to apply modern photojournalistic techniques, the middle classes became inured to illustrated magazines. Advancements in photomechanical reproduction allowed periodicals to focus more extensively on the vicissitudes and pleasures of everyday life in urban Spain along with world events in increasingly remote locales. Hold That Pose explores this period of transition through an analysis of the images that spoke for and to the burgeoning numbers of subscribers who purchased the most popular weeklies of the period.
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(How was the female body perceived in the popular culture ...)
How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late nineteenth-century Spain? Using a wide array of images from popular magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture. Charnon-Deutsch organizes the 190 images reproduced in this book into six broad categories, or "fictions of the feminine": she reads women's bodies as a romantic symbol of beauty or evil, as a privileged link with the natural order, as a font of male inspiration, as a mouthpiece of bourgeois mores, as a focalized point of male fear and desire, and as an eroticized expression of Spanish exoticism and political ambitions. These imaginary visions of femininity, Charnon-Deutsch argues, were a response to, and also helped to create, gendered stereotypes by suggesting ideal feminine behavior and poses. Further, they comprised a reassuring "between-male" cultural medium that provided graphic validation of women's docile body for a culture enthralled with femininity. Integrating the fields of literature and cultural studies, Charnon-Deutsch's approach to this subject is unique. Many of the images collected here are available for the first time, and they represent only a fraction of the two thousand images Charnon-Deutsch collected during her research. This book will appeal to students of Spanish cultural studies and gender studies, as well as to art historians.
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(How was the female body perceived in the popular culture ...)
How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late nineteenth-century Spain? Using a wide array of images from popular magazines of the day, Lou Charnon-Deutsch finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture. Charnon-Deutsch organizes the 190 images reproduced in this book into six broad categories, or fictions of the feminine: she reads women s bodies as a romantic symbol of beauty or evil, as a privileged link with the natural order, as a font of male inspiration, as a mouthpiece of bourgeois mores, as a focalized point of male fear and desire, and as an eroticized expression of Spanish exoticism and political ambitions. These imaginary visions of femininity, Charnon-Deutsch argues, were a response to, and also helped to create, gendered stereotypes by suggesting ideal feminine behavior and poses. Further, they comprised a reassuring between-male cultural medium that provided graphic validation of women s docile body for a culture enthralled with femininity. Integrating the fields of literature and cultural studies, Charnon-Deutsch's approach to this subject is unique. Many of the images collected here are available for the first time, and they represent only a fraction of the two thousand images Charnon-Deutsch collected during her research. This book will appeal to students of Spanish cultural studies and gender studies, as well as to art historians.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/027101007X/?tag=2022091-20
Lou Charnon-Deutsch was born on July 2, 1946, in Illinois, United States.
Charnon-Deutsch received bachelor's degree from Mount Mary College (now Mount Mary University) in 1968. After that she moved to Purdue University, graduating from it three years later with master's degree. She finally obtained her doctor's degree at University of Chicago in 1978.
Charnon-Deutsch devoted most of her career to State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she began as an assistant professor, from 1980 till 1988. That year she became an associate professor, staying at the position for seven years, her next post there was a professor of Hispanic languages and literature and women’s studies, from 1995. Charnon-Deutsch was a chairperson of Hispanic studies, for two years from 1989, and a director of Humanities Institute, in 1997.
Concerning Charnon-Deutsch's writings, her earliest works were in the School of Chicago Criticism, that strongly influenced her first book. But by the mid-eighties, she broadened her interests and included applied feminist and psychoanalytic theories. Her following two books examined issues of gender and representation in well-known 19th century male-authored texts, and in the fiction of both canonical and non-canonical women writers.
More recently, Charnon-Deutsch has been working on methods of representation in popular Spanish culture.
Nowadays she is working on the conspiracy theories in nineteenth-century European fiction. Also, she is an affiliate of Women's Studies and of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
(How was the female body perceived in the popular culture ...)
(How was the female body perceived in the popular culture ...)
(Spanish Gypsy—the words themselves conjure up the sound o...)
(Applying recent European and Anglo-American feminist scho...)
1990(Hold That Pose explores the role of visual images in Spai...)
Charnon-Deutsch married Dale G. Deutsch in 1972.