The Disappropriation of the Women Writer, from Angelisation to Gynofagia Authors Barbara Zecchi University of Massachusetts at Amherst Keywords: Women writers, female characters, stereotypes, disappropriation Abstract This article shows the different stages women and female protagonists have gone through in the male literary imagination during the last two centuries, and how Spanish women writers have tried to deconstruct these stereotypes. Male writers, obsessed with the “risk of female sexuality”, represented their female characters first as anti-sexual, angelical beings, later as adulterers, and finally as femmes fatales, and denied women writers a place in the literary canon until, paradoxically, they seemed to become more accepted in Franco’s time. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-21 Issue No. 13 (2007): Mujer y silencio. Jeanne Hersch Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
