La revolución del pudor: escándalos, género y política en la crisis de la monarquía liberal en España
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This article analyzes the performative nature of the great moral and political scandals built around the royal family, which affected the public image and the mechanisms of legitimation of the liberal monarchy in Spain during the reign of Isabel II (1833-1868). I approach the subject from the current perspective of reflection on the historical overlapping of the notions of political virtue and moral scandal that gave rise to the idea of “corruption” in the liberal universe. An idea that, as I have tried to demonstrate, had strong gender connotations, was linked to the nation-state building dynamics, forces a substantial extension of our notion of the political, suggests the historically creative nature of scandals, and demonstrates the heterodox, not necessarily public or conventionally “reasonable” forms, which shaped the very notion of modern public sphere.
DOI: 10.18042/hp.39.02
Author: Isabel Burdiel
Institution: Universitat de València
Language: Spanish
Topic: Historical Studies on Spain
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2802540564