Women in Contemporary Spain

Women in Contemporary Spain
Author: Anny Brooksbank Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780719047572

This volume gives access to debates in Spanish women's studies.

Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain

Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
Author: Susan L. Fischer
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781644530153

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. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain

Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain
Author: Helen Nader
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252028687

A collection of essays which provide portraits of eight of the Mendoza family's female members. It explores the lives of powerful women whose lineage gave them status within a patriarchal society designed to keep women from public life.

Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World

Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World
Author: María Jesús Zamora Calvo
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2021-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807176443

Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús Zamora Calvo, this collection gathers innovative scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards. Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials. Focusing on individual cases of women brought before the Inquisition, the authors study their subjects’ social status, particularize their motivations, determine the characteristics of their prosecution, and deduce the reasons used to justify violence against them. With their subjection of women to imprisonment, interrogation, and judgment, these cases display at their core a specter of contempt, humiliation, silencing, and denial of feminine selfhood. The contributors include specialists in the early modern period from multiple disciplines, encompassing literature, language, translation, literary theory, history, law, iconography, and anthropology. By considering both the women themselves and the Inquisition as an institution, this collection works to uncover stories, lives, and cultural practices that for centuries have dwelled in obscurity.

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain

Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain
Author: Allyson M. Poska
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199265313

Using a wide array of archival documentation, including Inquisition records, wills, dowry contracts, folklore, and court cases, Poska examines how early modern Spanish peasant women asserted and perceived their authority within the family and community and how the large numbers of female-headed households in the region functioned in the absence of men.

The Lives of Women

The Lives of Women
Author: Lisa Vollendorf
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826514813

Recovering voices long relegated to silence, this work deciphers the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth-century Spain. It incorporates convent texts, Inquisition cases, biographies, and women's literature to reveal a previously unrecognized boom in women's writing between 1580 and 1700.

Free Women of Spain

Free Women of Spain
Author: Martha A. Ackelsberg
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781902593968

With fists upraised, Mujeres Libres struggled for their own emancipation and the freedom of all.

Unruly Women

Unruly Women
Author: Margaret E. Boyle
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2014-02-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1442665041

In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage. Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women’s deviance and rehabilitation, Unruly Women argues that women’s performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life. Boyle considers both real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess. Unruly Women explores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women’s non-normative relationships to the topics of marriage, sex, and violence.

Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain

Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain
Author: Catherine M. Jaffe
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807177040

In original essays drawn from a myriad of archival materials, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, founded in 1787 to administer charities and schools for impoverished women and children, claimed a role in the public sphere through their self-representation as civic mothers and created an enlightened legacy for modern feminism in Spain.

Gendered Spaces

Gendered Spaces
Author: Daphne Spain
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1992
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780807843574

The history of spatial segregation at home and in the workplace and how it reinforces women's inequality.