"Includes articles by fourteen outstanding scholars who examine works by or about exceptional early modern Spanish women from diverse walks of life--from queens to poets, from actors to saints. Divided into four parts, these essays demonstrate how these women asserted their agency in the household, in the convent, on the stage, or at their writing desks"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Barbara, la alquimista de palabras (Barbara, the alchemist of words) / Marjorie Agosin. Self-fashion show : women in the plays of Cervantes and significant others / Edward H. Friedman -- Chained by her words : Calderon's La gran Cenobia and the perils of the sublime / Frederick A. de Armas -- Folklore as queer : Velez de Guevara's La serrana de la Vera / Emilie L. Bergmann -- Mujer Vestida de hombre to the extreme : Catalina de Erauso in Montalban's La monja alferez / Teresa Scott Soufas -- Career-oriented women in the theater : Maria Alvarez, Barbara Coronel, Fabiana Laura / Elizabeth Cruz Petersen -- Women in charge : autoras and actresses in the reign of Felipe V / Susan Paun de Garcia -- Lope de Vega's "warring" female characters / Isaac Benabu -- "Entre las otras sois vos" : the Cancionero de Herberay and women's cultural production / Emily C. Francomano -- Sense(s) and sensibility in two sonnets of Catalina Clara Rodriguez de Guzman / Charles Victor Ganelin -- Women's vision, women's truth : Teresa of Avila's defense of women's access to God / Gillian T.W. Ahlgren -- Teresa of Avila and Jeanne Guyon read The song of songs / Sharon D. Voros -- Vision, vulnerability, and the provocative "higas" in Lope de vega's Santa Teresa de Jesus / Sherry Velasco -- Teresa of Avila, spiritual warrior secularized : going for the subjective in Barbara Mujica's biographical fiction / Susan L. Fischer -- Revisionism, prolepsis, and anachronism : two contemporary Spanish novels about Teresa of Avila / Alison Weber -- Barbara, la alquimista de palabras (Barbara, the alchemist of words) / Marjorie Agosin.
Summary:
Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in 'Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain' examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers. Such women did not necessarily engage in masculine pursuits, but often used cultural production and engaged in social subversion to exercise resistance in the home, in the convent, on stage, or at their writing desks.
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