TY - BOOK AU - LaGreca,Nancy TI - Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903 T2 - Penn State Romance Studies SN - 9780271036519 AV - PQ7081.5.L35 2009 U1 - 863/.5099287 PY - 2009/// CY - University Park, PA PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Spanish American literature-Women authors-History and criticism KW - Spanish American literature-19th century-History and criticism KW - Feminism and literature-Latin America KW - Women in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Front Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Women's Imagined Roles in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Seclusion in the Midst of Progress and Early Feminist Reactions -- 2. Coming of Age(ncy): Refugio Barragán de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- 3. Women in Peru: National and Private Struggles for Independence -- 4. New Models for New Women: Rethinking Cinderella's Virtues and Humanizing the Stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca Sol -- 5. Women as Body in Puerto Rico: Medicine, Morality, and Institutionalizations of Sexual Oppression in the Long Nineteenth Century -- 6. Sexual agency in Ana Roqué's Luz y sombra: A Subversion of the Essentialized Woman -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover N2 - No detailed description available for "Rewriting Womanhood" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6224066 ER -