Title: The Myth of Matriarchy: Symbols of Womanhood in Galician Regional Identity
Abstract: Galicia, the northwesternmost region of Spain, is often popularly characterized within that nation as matriarchal. This concept of female power has also been elaborated and drawn upon by Galician regionalists in their construction of a distinctive regional identity. The A. examines the ways in which a myth of matriarchy and symbols of womanhood have been used in Galician ethnogenesis. He explores both the aptness of feminine symbols for expressing the paradoxical nature of the relationship of region to nation and the ironies evoked by the use of the hegemonically devalued symbol of woman to stand for the region.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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