Power and Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650

Book Overview

The Mendoza family was one of Spain's most prominent Renaissance dynasties, and this collection, a groundbreaking overview of two hundred years of Spanish history, provides in-depth portraits of eight of its female members.

These essays explore the lives of powerful women whose lineage gave them status within a patriarchal society designed to keep women from public life. Each of the influential and literary women discussed in this volume handled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025207145X
• ISBN13: 9780252071454
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"