Women, texts, and authority in the early modern Spanish world /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Vicente, Marta V., Corteguera, Luis R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]
Series:	Women and gender in the early modern world.
Subjects:	Spanish literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Spain. Feminism and literature > Spain. Women > Spain > Social conditions. Women > Language. Authority.

Table of Contents:

Women in texts: from language to representation / Marta V. Vicente and Luis R. Corteguera
Sclaves molt fortes, senyors invalts: sex, lies and paternity suits in fifteenth-century Spain / Debra Blumenthal
The gender of shared sovereignty: texts and the royal marriage of Isabella and Ferdinand / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
Writing (for) her life: Judeo-conversas in early modern Spain / Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau
Representing madness: text, gender and authority in early Habsburg Spain / Bethany Aram
Patience and pluck: Job's wife, conflict and resistance in Morisco manuscripts hidden in the sixteenth century / Mary Elizabeth Perry
The three lives of the Vida: the uses of convent autobiography / Alison Weber
Visualizing gender on the page in convent literature / Sherry M. Velasco
Forms of authority: women's legal representations in mid-colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns
The making of a visionary woman: the life of Beatriz Ana Ruiz, 1666-1735 / Luis R. Corteguera
Textual uncertainties: the written legacy of women entrepreneurs in eighteenth-century Barcelona / Marta V. Vicente.