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Perfect Wives, Other Women
Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
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In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women's bodiesâspecifically the bodies of wivesâin Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the site of anxious inquiry, Dopico Black mines a variety of Golden Age texts for instances in which the era's persistent preoccupation with racial, religious, and cultural otherness was reflected in the depiction of women.
Subject to the scrutiny of a remarkable array of gazesâinquisitors, theologians, religious reformers, confessors, poets, playwrights, and, not least among them, husbandsâthe bodies of perfect and imperfect wives elicited diverse readings. Dopico Black reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the meanings of these human bodies and "other" bodies, such as those of the Jew, the Moor, the Lutheran, the degenerate, and whoever else departed from a recognized norm. The body of the wife, in other words, became associated with categories separate from anatomy, reflecting the particular hermeneutics employed during the Inquisition regarding the surveillance of otherness.
Dopico Black's compelling argument will engage students of Spanish and Spanish American history and literature, gender studies, women's studies, social psychology and cultural studies.
Subject to the scrutiny of a remarkable array of gazesâinquisitors, theologians, religious reformers, confessors, poets, playwrights, and, not least among them, husbandsâthe bodies of perfect and imperfect wives elicited diverse readings. Dopico Black reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the meanings of these human bodies and "other" bodies, such as those of the Jew, the Moor, the Lutheran, the degenerate, and whoever else departed from a recognized norm. The body of the wife, in other words, became associated with categories separate from anatomy, reflecting the particular hermeneutics employed during the Inquisition regarding the surveillance of otherness.
Dopico Black's compelling argument will engage students of Spanish and Spanish American history and literature, gender studies, women's studies, social psychology and cultural studies.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2001Print ISBN
9780822326427, 9780822326502eBook ISBN
9780822383079Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter One: Visible Signs: Reading the Wife's Body in Early Modern Spain
- Chapter Two: "Pasos de un peregrino": Luis de Leon Reads the Perfect Wife
- Chapter Three: The Perfected Wife: Signs of Adultery and the Adultery of Signs in Calderon's El medico de su honra
- Chapter Four: Sor Juana's Empenos: The Imperfect Wife
- Conclusion: "Como anillo al dedo"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index