Spanish Women in the Golden Age

Images and Realities
Herausgeber: Saint-Saens, Alain; Sanchez, Magdalena S.; Sainte-Saens, Alain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The history of women in early modern Spain is a largely untapped field. This book opens the field substantially by examining the position of women in religious, political, literary, and economic life. Drawing on both historical and literary approaches, the contributors challenge the portrait of Spanish women as passive and marginalized, showing that despite forces working to exclude them, women in Golden Age Spain influenced religious life and politics and made vital contributions to economic and cultural life. The contributors seek to incorporate the study of Spanish women into the current work on literary criticism and on the intersection of private and public spheres. The authors integrate women into subfields of Spanish history and literature, such as Inquisition studies, the Spanish monarchy, Spain's economic and political decline, and Golden Age drama. The essays demonstrate the necessity and value of incorporating women into the study of Golden Age Spain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780313294815
• ISBN-10: 031329481X
• Artikelnr.: 21565261

Autorenporträt

MAGDALENA S. SÁNCHEZ is Assistant Professor of History at Gettysburg College and the author of several articles. She is currently writing a book on Habsburg women, power, and politics at the court of Philip III of Spain. ALAIN SAINT-SAENS is Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University and the author of the forthcoming book In the Service of the Faith: The Art of the Spanish Counter-Reformation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Alain Saint-SAËns Religion and Society Spaces of Women's
Religiousity in the Military Order of Santiago in Late Medieval Castile by
María Echániz Charisma and Controversy: The Case of María de Santo Domingo
by Jodi Bilinkoff Behind the Veil: Moriscas and the Politics of Resistance
and Survival by Mary Elizabeth Perry A Case of Gendered Rejection: The
Hermitess in Golden Age Spain by Alain Saint-SAËns Political Realms The
Female Figure as Political Propaganda in the "Pedro el Cruel" Romancero by
Anne J. Cruz Pious and Political Images of a Habsburg Woman at the Court of
Philip III (1598-1621) by Magdalena S. Sánchez Women and Factionalism in
the Court of Charles II of Spain by J. M. Campbell Female Identity Images
and Realities of Work: Women and Guilds in Early Modern Barcelona by Marta
Vicente Conversions of the Woman Monarchy in the Drama of Calderón de la
Barca by Mary Lorene Thomas Rhetorical Canons and Female Portraits in
Pastoral Romances by Sylvia Trelles The Gendered Context of Melancholy for
Spanish Golden Age Women Writers by Teresa S. Soufas Bibliography Index