Rewriting Womanhood : Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 /
"An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragán of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roque of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis à vis the prescribed comportment for women during...
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Penn State Romance studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions
- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido
- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence
- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol
- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century
- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.