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- “Softcover. Like New Unused”
- Literary Movement
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- Nonfiction
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822326426
ISBN-13
9780822326427
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1751901
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Perfect Wives, Other Women : Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
Publication Year
2001
Subject
Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Europe / Spain & Portugal, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-057814
Reviews
" Perfect Wives, Other Women is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work."--James D. Fernández, author of Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain, “ Perfect Wives, Other Women is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work.â€�-James D. Fern ndez, author of Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain, " Perfect Wives, Other Women is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work."-James D. Fernández, author of Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain, "Perfect Wives, Other Women is a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the wife with the languages and institutions of inquisition in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spains Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly."--Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison, " Perfect Wives, Other Women is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work."--James D. Fernndez, author of Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain, " Perfect Wives, Other Women is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work."--James D. Fernández, author of Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain "Perfect Wives, Other Women is a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the wife with the languages and institutions of inquisition in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spain´s Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly."--Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Perfect Wives, Other Women is a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the wife with the languages and institutions of inquisition in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spain's Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly."- Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison"Perfect Wives, Other Women is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work."- James D. Fernández, author of Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain, “Perfect Wives, Other Women is a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the wife with the languages and institutions of inquisition in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spain s Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly.â€�-Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Perfect Wives, Other Women is a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the wife with the languages and institutions of inquisition in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spain's Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly."- Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Perfect Wives, Other Women is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work."- James D. Fernndez, author of Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain, "Perfect Wives, Other Women is a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the wife with the languages and institutions of inquisition in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spain´s Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly."-Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Perfect Wives, Other Women is a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the wife with the languages and institutions of inquisition in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spain´s Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly."--Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.73/6/0946
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Preface 1. Visible Signs: Reading the Wife's Body in Early Modern Spain 2. "Pasos de un peregrino": Luis de León Reads the Perfect Wife 3. The Perfected Wife: Signs of Adultery and the Adultery of Signs in Calderón's El médico de su honra 4. Sor Juana's Empeños: The Imperfect Wife Conclusion: Como anillo al dedo Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women's bodies--specifically the bodies of wives--in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the site of anxious inquiry, Dopico Black mines a variety of Golden Age texts for instances in which the era's persistent preoccupation with racial, religious, and cultural otherness was reflected in the depiction of women. Subject to the scrutiny of a remarkable array of gazes--inquisitors, theologians, religious reformers, confessors, poets, playwrights, and, not least among them, husbands--the bodies of perfect and imperfect wives elicited diverse readings. Dopico Black reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the meanings of these human bodies and "other" bodies, such as those of the Jew, the Moor, the Lutheran, the degenerate, and whoever else departed from a recognized norm. The body of the wife, in other words, became associated with categories separate from anatomy, reflecting the particular hermeneutics employed during the Inquisition regarding the surveillance of otherness. Dopico Black's compelling argument will engage students of Spanish and Spanish American history and literature, gender studies, women's studies, social psychology and cultural studies., Close readings of canonical Spanish "Golden Age" and Latin American "colonial" texts, drawing heavily on the findings and strategies of psychoanalytic criticism, gender studies and Marxism, and offering an understanding of a repres
LC Classification Number
HQ806
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