The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain

Table of Contents

ConTenTs ackNowledgmeNts ix Preface xi iNtroductioN 1 Part i Defining Gender The Inquisition 1 “I am a man and a woman”: Eleno/a de Céspedes Faces the Inquisition 11 2 Bernarda Manuel: Defending Femininity to the Holy Office 32 Part ii Imagining Gender Women and Their Readers 3 Women in Fiction: María de Zayas and Mariana de Carvajal 57 4 Women Onstage: Angela de Azevedo, María de Zayas, and Ana Caro 74 viii The Lives of Women Part iii Women’s Worlds Convent Culture 5 Nuns as Writers: The Cloister and Beyond 93 6 Nuns as Mothers: Biology and Spirituality 118 Part iv Women’s Networks Leadership and Community 7 Single Women: The Price of Independence 147 8 Toward a History of Women’s Education 169 coNclusioN 187 glossary 193 Brief BiograPhies 195 Notes 201 works cited 239 iNdex 257 ...