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"Las 'de hoy' son mujeres 'sin tipo'": la identidad de la mujer obrera en la República de Weimar y la Segunda República Española a través de La chica de seda Artificial (1932) y Tea Rooms: mujeres obreras (1934) de Luisa Carnés

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    Vives Martínez, Mireia
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    Vives Martínez, Mireia

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2019
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    Archivum: Revista de la Facultad de Filología ISSN 0570-7218 Nº 69, 2019, pags. 421-445
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    This paper explores the situation of working-class women during the Weimar Republic and the Spanish Second Republic through Irmgard Keun's novel La chica de seda artificial (1932) and Luisa Carnés' Tea Rooms: mujeres obreras (1934). Despite the advances in social and gender politics during these years, behind the appearance of renovation remained the traditional social order which limited women in their attempts to improve their situation. Both authors show through the novels' main characters the hardships female workers must face in this period: even if Doris and Matilde pose a challenge to the nineteenth-century model of femininity, their condition as female workers prevents them from emancipating. Bearing in mind economic and political conditions, as well as the morals of the time, these works highlight the ruling determinism in working-class women's life; even though they are forced to work within the new economic system, they are unable to free themselves from the norms and structures of the patriarchal society or take on new roles.


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