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Acknowledgments I would like to thank the University of Washington for grants and sabbatical leave which made the development and completion of this book possible. Part of Chapter Six appeared as "Masquerade, Male Masochism and the Female Outlaw: A FeministAnalysis ofLope's Embustes de Fabia," in Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 24.3 (1990): 11-29. I am grateful to the editors of the journal for permission to reprint a condensed version of my article. Thanks also to research assistants Arline Garcia and Jane Adam for their help at various stages of the project, to the editors at PSRL, and to the two anonymous readers for their many helpful suggestions for improvement. I am indebted to numerous colleagues and friends for their guidance and encouragement. In particular, the book has profited greatly from conversations with Cynthia Steele, George A. Shipley, Anthony L. Geist, Mitchell Greenberg, and members of the Feminist Colloquium at the University of Washington. Special thanks to David Roman, who gave so generously of his time and expertise, and to Eleanor Soto, who provided ongoing motivation for the completion of the project. xiii ...

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