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Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650
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Paperback. Presenting an overview of Spanish history, this collection of essays provides portraits the female members of the Mendoza family. It deals with a complex society in which women were limited by law, and yet their social status made those laws negotiable. These women challenged the laws of the land and patriarchal assumptions about inferiority. Editor(s): Nader, Helen. Series: Hispanisms. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 331.
The Mendoza family was one of Spain's most prominent Renaissance dynasties, and this collection, a groundbreaking overview of two hundred years of Spanish history, provides in-depth portraits of eight of its female members.
These essays explore the lives of powerful women whose lineage gave them status within a patriarchal society designed to keep women from public life. Each of the influential and literary women discussed in this volume handled her status differently, and their concerns were not dissimilar from the concerns of feminists today: the blurring of the personal and the political, public versus private space, language ... Read more
The Mendoza family was one of Spain's most prominent Renaissance dynasties, and this collection, a groundbreaking overview of two hundred years of Spanish history, provides in-depth portraits of eight of its female members.
These essays explore the lives of powerful women whose lineage gave them status within a patriarchal society designed to keep women from public life. Each of the influential and literary women discussed in this volume handled her status differently, and their concerns were not dissimilar from the concerns of feminists today: the blurring of the personal and the political, public versus private space, language ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Hispanisms
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071454
SKU
V9780252071454
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Reviews for Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650
"No other scholarly work has attempted to address the significance of a whole panoply of women from a single noble family. This groundbreaking work makes a very important contribution to our understanding of patriarchy and women's agency in the past." Mary Elizabeth Perry, author of Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville