Spanish Women in the Golden Age: Images and Realities
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Spanish Women in the Golden Age: Images and Realities
By (Author) Alain Saint-Saens
By (author) Magdalen Sanchez
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
13th February 1996
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Cultural studies
305.40946
Physical Properties
Hardback
248
Description
The history of women in early modern Spain is a largely untapped field. This book opens the field substantially by examining the position of women in religious, political, literary and economic life. Drawing on both historical and literary approaches, the contributors challenge the portrait of Spanish women as passive and marginalised, showing that despite forces working to exclude them, women in Golden Age Spain influenced religious life and politics and made vital contributions to economic and cultural life.
Reviews
[The authors] have assembled a magnificent set of essays which review the place of women in Golden Age Spain across a broad spectrum....There is an overall coherence to this volume which is matched by the evenness of quality of the various contributions.-Renaissance Studies.
Graduate students and faculty will welcome this addition to their libraries.-Choice
"The authors have assembled a magnificent set of essays which review the place of women in Golden Age Spain across a broad spectrum....There is an overall coherence to this volume which is matched by the evenness of quality of the various contributions."-Renaissance Studies.
"Graduate students and faculty will welcome this addition to their libraries."-Choice
"[The authors] have assembled a magnificent set of essays which review the place of women in Golden Age Spain across a broad spectrum....There is an overall coherence to this volume which is matched by the evenness of quality of the various contributions."-Renaissance Studies.
Author Bio
MAGDALENA S. SNCHEZ is Assistant Professor of History at Gettysburg College and the author of several articles. She is currently writing a book on Habsburg women, power, and politics at the court of Philip III of Spain. ALAIN SAINT-SAENS is Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University and the author of the forthcoming book In the Service of the Faith: The Art of the Spanish Counter-Reformation.
