Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern SpainDuke University Press, 13. veebr 2001 - 328 pages In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women’s bodies—specifically the bodies of wives—in 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 gazes—inquisitors, theologians, religious reformers, confessors, poets, playwrights, and, not least among them, husbands—the 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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... containment as- sociated with the institutional presence of the Holy Office in early modern Spain). Ifmarriage, then, placedwomen'sbodies at an uneasyjuncturebe- tween subjectivityand surveillance,so too did two importanttextual ...
... containment as- sociated with the institutional presence of the Holy Office in early modern Spain). Ifmarriage, then, placedwomen'sbodies at an uneasyjuncturebe- tween subjectivityand surveillance,so too did two importanttextual ...
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... asitwere,bothmentakeupissues ofcontamination,containment,andaneconomyofbloodpurity.More importantly, perhaps, in practicing a reading strategy that seeks to connect meaning with truth as punishment, both are guiltyof a ...
... asitwere,bothmentakeupissues ofcontamination,containment,andaneconomyofbloodpurity.More importantly, perhaps, in practicing a reading strategy that seeks to connect meaning with truth as punishment, both are guiltyof a ...
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... containment of Otherness, broadlyand variously defined.These last two in particular—surveillance and the containment of Otherness—and Visible Signs 11.
... containment of Otherness, broadlyand variously defined.These last two in particular—surveillance and the containment of Otherness—and Visible Signs 11.
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... and the containment of Otherness—and the anxieties they produce and reproduce, at least as much as the direct impact that inquisitorial legislation on sexuality may have had on the lives of early modern wives, I invoke ...
... and the containment of Otherness—and the anxieties they produce and reproduce, at least as much as the direct impact that inquisitorial legislation on sexuality may have had on the lives of early modern wives, I invoke ...
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Contents
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Pasos de un peregrino Luis de Leon Reads the Perfect Wife | 48 |
The Perfected Wife Signs of Adultery and the Adultery of Signs in Calderons El medico de su honra | 109 |
Sor Juanas Empenos The Imperfect Wife | 165 |
Como anillo al dedo | 205 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 283 |
Index | 299 |
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