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Volume 13, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2040-6134
  • E-ISSN: 2040-6142

Abstract

This article maps an emerging engagement with intersections amongst gender, voice/sound and feminism in the context of contemporary Spanish audio-visual cultural production. I locate the voice at the nexus of contemporary feminisms as these manifest through popular, public and theoretical means. Taking two recent internationally successful Spanish series ( [] and []) as examples, I contend that female voices and their treatment within contemporary Spanish audio-visual cultures constitute an important site within which female subjectivities emerge and are claimed. I analyse the importance of gender representations on- and off-screen in these works and attend to the use of music and voice-over in these shows as exemplifying the contradictory character of the voice within contemporary feminisms, both in and beyond Spain.

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