Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain
Subtitle: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650 (Hispanisms)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252028687
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; History - General History; History: American; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Renaissance; Women's Studies - General; History / Spain & Portugal; Western Europe - General; Mendoza family; Power (Social sciences); Renaissance, 1450-1600; Spain; Women
First sentence: Education and family influence allowed the Mendoza women to generally excel in matters of personal achievement and independence, yet few of them assumed public political personas in their own right.