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Gypsies in Madrid : sex, gender and the performance of identity
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Gypsies in Madrid : sex, gender and the performance of identity

Author: Paloma Gay y Blasco
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, ©1999.
Series: Mediterranea series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The exploration of Gitano acts of cultural invention is one of the features of this new ethnography. Another aspect of the work is the author's vision of the impermanent nature of the Gitano social order and the absence of a society or community.
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Gay y Blasco, Paloma.
Gypsies in Madrid.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, c1999
(OCoLC)594632460
Online version:
Gay y Blasco, Paloma.
Gypsies in Madrid.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, c1999
(OCoLC)607225101
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paloma Gay y Blasco
ISBN: 1859732534 9781859732533 1859732585 9781859732588
OCLC Number: 42582204
Description: xi, 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Those awkward Spaniards --
3. A divided neighbourhood : the problem of Gitano shared identity --
4. Desire, control and dual moral standards --
5. The female body and genedered moralities --
6. The politics of the married couple --
7. Personhood and kinship links --
8. Men in the face of conflict --
9. Conclusion.
Series Title: Mediterranea series.
Responsibility: Paloma Gay y Blasco.

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Throughout the 20th century, Spanish people have deployed conflicting sexual moralities in their struggle for political supremacy within the state. The author visualizes the "impermanent" nature of  Read more...

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