Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain. A Tribute to Bárbara Mujica. Eds. Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. de Armas. The University of Delaware Press, 2019.

Paper · 306 pp. · 6 × 9 · ISBN 9781644530160

Ebook · 306 pp. · ISBN 9781644530177 · $75.00 · Jul 2019

Introduction

Rethinking the Early Modern Spanish Woman: From Victim to Warrior

Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. de Armas .......................1

1. Women as Dramatic Subjects
2. Self-Fashion Show:

Women in the Plays of Cervantes and Significant Others

Edward H. Friedman...........................................................33

2. Chained by her Words:

Calderón’s La gran Cenobia and the Perils of the Sublime

Frederick A. de Armas.........................................................50

3. Folklore as Queer: Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de La Vera

Emilie Bergmann ............................................................... 66

4. Mujer vestida de hombre to the Extreme:

Catalina de Erauso in Montalbán’s La monja alférez

Teresa Scott Soufas ..............................................................89

1. Women In the Theatre: Constructed Subjectivity, Actors, Producers
2. Career–Oriented Women in the Theater:

María Álvarez, Bárbara Coronel, Fabiana Laura

Elizabeth Cruz Petersen ......................................................105

6. Women in Charge: Autoras and Actresses in the Reign of Felipe V

Susan Paun de Garcia ............................................................119

7. Casandra in Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza:

A “Warrior” Female Character

Isaac Benabu ........................................................................140

III. Women in Literature and Culture: Poets, Readers, Holy Subjects

8. “Entre las otras sois vos”:

The Cancionero de Herberay and Women’s Cultural Production

Emily C. Francomano ...........................................................159

9. Sense(s) and Sensibility in the

Two Sonnets of Catalina Clara Rodríguez de Guzmán

Charles Victor Ganelin ...........................................................172

10. Women's Vision, Women's Truth:

Teresa of Ávila’s Defense of Women's Access to God

Gillian T. W. Ahlgren ...............................................................186

11. Teresa of Ávila and Jeanne Guyon Read the Song of Songs

Sharon D. Voros ......................................................................203

1. Teresa of Ávila Refashioned on the Stage and on the Page
2. Vision, Vulnerability, and the Provocative “Higas”

in Lope de Vega’s Santa Teresa de Jesús

Sherry Velasco........................................................................221

13. Teresa of Ávila, Spiritual Warrior Secularized:

Going for the Subjective in Bárbara Mujica’s Biographical Fiction

Susan L. Fischer.....................................................................241

14. Revisionism, Prolepsis, and Anachronism:

Two Contemporary Spanish Novels about Teresa of Ávila

Alison Weber ........................................................................261

1. Epilogue. Call to Battle
2. Bárbara, la alquimista de palabras

Marjorie Agosín ......................................................................281

Contributors...........................................................................287

Index ......................................................................................293