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WOMEN'S VOICES AND THE POLITICS
OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE
FROM CONVENT CELL TO IMPERIAL COURT
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This enriching collection of fourteen essays offers a wide-ranging group of studies that treat questions of political, socio-historical, and cultural significance during the Early Modern era of Spanish history during Spain’s extensive colonial expansion. Looking at women sometimes as individuals, other times as members of groups such as female religious, the authors examine the influence of women who lived in different parts of Europe and the Americas. These women and their sisters – as authors, subjects, and objects of cultural and social imperialism and institutions – repeatedly found and widened the narrow gaps afforded women in Western patriarchal societies. Some spoke from their cells to their conventual sisters while others corresponded with and held sway with imperial, viceregal, and religious courts. A few repeated yet many others resisted the repressive bonds of patriarchal secular and religious institutions that attempted to govern their physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual lives as well as limiting their cultural experiences such as education. This particular collection is a significant and momentous contribution to Hispanic literary, historical, and religious studies as well as to gender studies.
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ISBN 1-931948-27-5 2008 |
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The Bilocation: The 'Lady in Blue' Preaching to the Jumanos.
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Contributors: Mary Elizabeth Perry; Stacey Schlau; Lucia Guzzi Harrison; Margaret R. Parker; Ronald E. Surtz; Virginia M. Bouvier; Rocío Quispe-Agnoli; Sharon D.Voros; Judith A.Whitenack; Nuria Salazar Simarro; Luis R. Corteguera; Sherry Velasco; Jane Tar; Jeanne Gillespie; Jennifer L.Eich.
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JENNIFER L. EICH is Full Professor of Spanish at Loyola Marymount University in California. She has already published a book, The Other Mexican Muse, with University Press of the South in 2004. |
Jennifer L. Eich |
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JEANNE GILLESPIE is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at The University of Southern Mississippi. She has already published a book, Saints and Warriors. Tlaxcalan Perspectives on the Conquest of Tenochtitlan, with University Press of the South in 2004.
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Jeanne Gillespie |
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LUCIA G. HARRISON is Associate Professor and Department Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Southeastern Louisiana University.
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Lucia G. Harrison |
