1st Edition
Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799
Contents
Introduction: Uncovering Women’s Colonial Archive
Mónica Díaz, and Rocío Quispe–Agnoli
Censorship and the Body
Divine Aspirations: Beatas, Writing, and the Inquisition in Late Seventeenth–Century Lima.
Stacey Schlau
Covert Afro–Catholic Agency in the Mystical Visions of Early Modern Brazil’s Rosa Maria Egipçíaca.
Rachel Spaulding
‘In So Celestial a Language’: Text as Body, Relics as Text.
Nancy E. van Deusen
Female Authority and Legal Discourse
In the Shadow of Coatlicue’s Smile: Reconstructing Indigenous Female Subjectivity in the Spanish Colonial Record.
Jeanne Gillespie
Inca Women Under Spanish Rule: Probanzas and Informaciones of the Colonial Andean Elite.
Sara Vicuña Guenguerich
The Bonds of Inheritance: Afro–Peruvian Women’s Legacies in a Slave–holding World.
Karen Graubart
Private Lives and Public Opinion
Letters from the Río de La Plata: Agency and Identity in Colonial Women’s Petitions.
Yamile Silva
Women’s Voices in Eighteenth–Century Spanish American Newspapers.
Mariselle Meléndez
List of Contributors
Index
Biography
Mónica Díaz is Associate professor of Hispanic Studies and History, and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.
Rocío Quispe-Agnoli is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Michigan State University, USA.
