Unruly women : performance, penitence, and punishment in early modern Spain /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyle, Margaret E., 1983- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Canada : University of Toronto Press 2013.
Series:Toronto Iberic.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5vkhk3
Table of Contents:
  • Gendering recogimiento in early modern Madrid
  • Reforming prostitutes: Madrid's Magdalen House
  • Reforming the Magdalen House: Madre Magdalena de San Jerónimo's galera
  • Recogimiento as a women's practice
  • State widow in Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La dama duende
  • Dramatizing women's community in María de Zayas's La traición en la amistad
  • Women's exemplary violence in Luis Vélez de Guevara's La serrana de la Vera
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: "Bad girls" of the Spanish Comedia.