Title: Women, Jews, and Muslims in the texts of reconquest Castile /
Authors: Mirrer, Louise.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Spanish literature History and criticism; Civilization, Medieval, in literature.; Women in literature; Jews in literature; Muslims in literature
Abstract: In Women, Jews, and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile, Mirrer examines the connections between gender stereotyping in literary representations of women and Jewish and Muslim men and the denial of access of these groups to the discourses of power during the 400 years covered. The author clearly investigates how the feminization of Jewish and Muslim men and portrayal of the negative social consequences of power in the hands of women worked to institutionalize this denial of power. Second, Mirrer examines the relationship of masculine values and characteristics to the "militant Christian ideology," which developed in Castilian society over the period in question.
Contents: Ch. 1. Of Muslim Princesses and Deceived Young Muslim Women -- Ch. 2. The Beautiful Jewess: Marisaltos in Alfonso X's Cantiga 107 -- Ch. 3. Muslim Men in the Ballad -- Ch. 4. Jewish Men in the Cantar de mio Cid -- Ch. 5. Queens in the Ballad: Landarico and Dona Blanca -- Ch. 6. The Virgin and the Abbess: Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Senora -- Ch. 7. The Widow and the Text: Ambivalent Signs in the Libro de Buen Amor -- Ch. 8. Leonor Lopez de Cordoba and the Poetics of Women's Autobiography -- Ch. 9. Gender, Power, and Language in the Poems of Florencia Pinar.