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“It’s not a convention book for damsels”: Literature and Women at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

An Example from Feminal

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Abstract
Based on a specific case: a Luís Via review of Caires vius by Víctor Català (pseudonym of Caterina Albert i Paradís) published in 1907 in the Catalan magazine Feminal, this article aims to review two broader issues from the field of literary criticism with a gender perspective: first, the role of women’s magazines as an ambivalent space – alternative, but also ‘subaltern’ – in relation to a literary and publishing system characterized by male dominance; second, the ways in which the admission of women’s writing emerges as tension within this field of forces situated astride the nineteenth and twentieth century.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Feb. 5, 2024 | Accepted: March 19, 2024 | Published June 26, 2024 | Language: ca

Keywords Víctor Català • Estudis de gènere • Feminal • Gender Perspective • History of Criticism • Premsa femenina • Women’s writing • Magazines for Women • Història de la crítica • Escriptura de dones

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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2024/22/010