Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Practices of Women's Literacy -- 1 Women's Reading Habits: Book Dedications to Female Patrons in Early Modern Spain -- 2 Reading over Men's Shoulders: Noblewomen's Libraries and Reading Practices -- 3 From Mother to Daughter: Educational Lineage in the Correspondence between the Countess of Palamós and Estefania de Requesens -- 4 The Education, Books and Reading Habits of Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, Princess of Éboli (1540-1592) -- Part 2 Conventual Literacy in Spain and the New World -- 5 Wondrous Words: Miraculous Literacy and Real Literacy in the Convents of Early Modern Spain -- 6 "Let Your Women Keep Silence": The Pauline Dictum and Women's Education -- 7 Women's Literacy and Masculine Authority: The Case of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Antonio Núñez de Miranda -- 8 Convent Education in Nueva Granada: White and Black, or Tonalities of Gray? -- Part 3 Representing Women's Literacy in Art and Literature -- 9 Learning through Love in Lope de Vega's Drama -- 10 Ana Caro and the Literary Academies of Seventeenth-Century Spain -- 11 María de Zayas, or Memory Chains and the Education of a Learned Woman -- 12 The Politics of Exemplarity: Biblical Women and the Education of the Spanish Lady in Martín Carrillo, Sebastián de Herrera Barnuevo, and María de Guevara -- 13 Learning at her Mother's Knee? Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary, and the Iconography of Women's Literacy -- Index.

The essays collected in this volume from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies offer entirely new research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy and on the cultural representations of women's literacy. The collection reveals the surprisingly broad range of pedagogical methods and learning experiences undergone by early modern women in Spain and the New World.

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