Religion, body and gender in early modern Spain
By: edited and introduced by Alain Saint-Saëns.
Contributors: Saint-Saëns, Alain.; Society for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies. Meeting
Publisher: Mellen Research University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Women -- Spain -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Sex role -- Spain -- History -- Congresses.; Spain -- Social conditions -- To 1800 -- Congresses.; Spain -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-170) and index.
"The nine articles published in this book in their revised version, were originally presented at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the SSPHS ... in New Orleans"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: The transgression of the religious frontier : the case of Spaniards and Portuguese / Bartolomé Bennassar; title: Betrayals of the soul in Spanish blasphemy / Maureen Flynn; title: To annihilate sorcery and amend the Church : a new interpretation of Pedro Ciruelo's Reprobación de las supersticiones y hechicerías / Lu Ann Homza; title: Subversion and seduction : perceptions of the body in writings of religious women in Counter-Reformation Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry; title: Apology and denigration of the eremitical body during the Spanish Golden Age / Alain Saint-Saëns; title: The ideology of breast-feeding : deconstructing Spanish medical texts concerning nursing women at the end of the eighteenth century / Joan Sherwood; title: The princess and the page : social transgression and marriage in the Spanish ballad Gerineldos / Anne J. Cruz; title: The exclusion of the feminine in the cultural discourse of the Golden Age : Juan Luis Vives and Fray Luis de León / Emilie Bergmann; title: Empress María and the making of political policy in the early years of Philip III's reign / Magdalena Sánchez.