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The stereotype of the Spanish Gypsy has been all but synonymous with Spain since the 19th century, and there are no signs that her power as a national icon is on the wane, surprising as it may seem. This is the history of this icon and her people, who have long been shrouded in mystery and all too often subjected to discrimination and persecution.

In the period, 1870 to 1910, technological and manufacturing advances revolutionized Spain's illustrated press and consequently Europeanized the tastes and the expectations of its elite urban readership. This book examines the ideological impact and the technological transformation of image production in Spanish magazines during the Restoration.

How was the female body perceived in the popular culture of late 19th-century Spain? Using an array of images from popular magazines of the day, this text finds that women were typically presented in ways that were reassuring to the emerging bourgeois culture.