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[MÁS INFORMACIÓN] FE MALE FRIENDS STAGING GEND...

Although the traditions of philia and amicitia proclaim friendship as a universal concept  it
has been an androcentric model until the emergence of the female friend in the Age of
Enlightenment. This book analyzes the discursive turn from premodern to modern gendered
constructions of friends in Spanish literature and sheds light on specific models of male 
female  and mixed relationships in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Our approach reveals
the gendering of male friendship through the exclusion of women and shows the crucial moment
when women appear capable of true friendship. The study traces the process of transition from a
homosocial bond based on a feudal notion of honor in the Siglo de Oro to new forms of affective
relations in a proto-bourgeois society that promotes equality  reason and citizenship. This
book spans two centuries of friendship and scrutinizes the creation of specifically gendered
social bonds in literary and theoretical frameworks ranging from political writing to poetry 
and from the working classes to the intellectual elites. Through novellas  novels  plays  poems
moral weeklies  and letters by female and male authors  every chapter examines a specific
concept of fe male friends related to society  politics  ethics  subjectivity  courtly culture
family and marriage structures. Thus  the book demonstrates the very act of gendering as it
relates to friendship as one of the most important forms of social interaction.

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