Power and gender in Renaissance Spain
Subtitle: eight women of the Mendoza family, 1450-1650
By: edited by Helen Nader.
Contributors: Nader, Helen, 1936-
Series: Hispanisms
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Mendoza family.; Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.; Power (Social sciences) -- Spain.; Spain -- History -- 711-1516.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Juana Pimentel, the Mendoza family, and the crown / Cristian Berco; title: In search of Juana de Mendoza / Ronald E. Surtz; title: Rebel with a cause / Stephanie Fink; title: Books in the sewing basket / Ma. del Carmen Vaquero Serrano; title: On the margins of the Mendoza lineage / Ma. Pilar Manero Sorolla; title: Choosing her own buttons / Grace E. Coolidge; title: Mother love in the Renaissance / Helen H. Reed; title: Willing desire / Anne J. Cruz.