In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman--and her counterpart, the feminized man - revealed the ambivalence of literary writers towards new methods of social control in Restoration Spain.

Acknowledgments
Credits
Notes on the Translations
List of Illustrations

Introduction:  Discourses on Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spain

1. The Deviant Female Body Under Surveillance: Galdós´s La desheredada
2. “Las Micaelas por fuera y por dentro”: Discipline and Resistance in Fortunata y Jacinta
3. Consuming Subjects:  Female Reading and Deviant Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Spain
4. Gender Trouble and the Crisis of Masculinity in the fin-de-siglo: Clarín’s Su único hijo and Pardo Bazán’s Memorias de un solterón
5. Gender, Orientalism, and the Performance of National Identity in Pardo Bazán’s Insolación
6. Taming the Prostitute’s Body: Desire, Knowledge, and the Naturalist Gaze in López Bago’s La prostituta series
7. Female Subjectivity and Agency in Matilde Cherner’s María Magdalena

Conclusion

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