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Contents A Note on Translations and Citations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I. Defining Gender: The Inquisition 1 'I am a man and a woman': Eleno/a de CÄspedes Faces the Inquisition 2 Bernarda Manuel: Defending Femininity to the Holy Office Part II. Imagining Gender: Women and Their Readers 3 Women in Fiction: MarÆa de Zayas and Mariana de Carvajal 4 Women Onstage: Angela de Azevedo, MarÆa de Zayas, and Ana Caro Part III. Women's Worlds: Convent Culture 5 Nuns as Writers: The Cloister and Beyond 6 Nuns as Mothers: Biology and Spirituality Part IV. Women's Networks: Leadership and Community 7 Single Women: The Price of Independence 8 Toward a History of Women's Education Conclusion Notes Glossary Brief Biographies Works Cited Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women -- Spain -- History.
Women -- Spain -- Social conditions.
Women authors, Spanish.
Feminism -- Spain -- History.
Inquisition -- Spain.