{"product_id":"unruly-women-performance-penitence-and-punishment-in-early-modern-spain-hardback-9781442646155","title":"Unruly Women; Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (Hardback) 9781442646155","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePerformance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMargaret E. Boyle (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442646155\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 February 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e184 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 16 x 1.8 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e provides readers with enough valuable insights on early modern judicial and rehabilitative practices to make it well worth the read.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Barbara Mujica (Modern Philology vol 112:04:2015) \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e deftly explores the relationships between historical \u003cem\u003erecogidas\u003c\/em\u003e and the fictional female protagonists of the \u003cem\u003ecomedia\u003c\/em\u003e… It will be of interest to scholars and teachers of early modern theater, history, and women’s studies.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Emily C. Francomano (Hispania vol 98:02:2015) \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e provides a strong foundation from which to build a more nuanced understanding of the engendering of early modern women’s roles and behaviors in Spain. This brief volume makes its argument with great clarity; it will be useful to both graduate students and scholars of early modern Spanish cultural studies.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Stacey Schlau (Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:02:2015) \u003cp\u003e\"Margaret Boyle has produced a compelling study, based on the ingenious juxtaposition of the rise of custodial institutions and their interconnections with a thriving professional theater business that nurtured many \"unruly\" female performers, entrepreneurs, and audience members.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Elizabeth R. Wright (Seventeenth Century News, Volume 73:3\u0026amp;4, Fall\/Winter 2015) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;One of the latest in a series of excellent University of Toronto Press books on the social and cultural context of early modern Spanish Literature… Boyle\u0026amp;#x2019;s work is well grounded in the body of recent scholarship that emphasizes women\u0026amp;#x2019;s active and formative role in early modern Spanish Society.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Jodi Campbell (Left History vol 20:01:2016) \u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;\u003ci\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich discussion of gendered rehabilitative practices and their performative dimensions, both on and off the stage in early modern Spain.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Jane Bitomsky (Parergon vol 33:01:2016)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Margaret E. Boyle explores the contradictory practices of rehabilitation enacted by women both on and off stage. Pairing historical narratives and archival records with canonical and non-canonical theatrical representations of women’s deviance and rehabilitation, \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e argues that women’s performances of penitence and punishment should be considered a significant factor in early modern Spanish life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoyle considers both real-life sites of rehabilitation for women in seventeenth-century Madrid, including a jail and a magdalen house, and women onstage, where she identifies three distinct representations of female deviance: the widow, the vixen, and the murderess. \u003cem\u003eUnruly Women\u003c\/em\u003e explores these archetypal figures in order to demonstrate the ways a variety of playwrights comment on women’s non-normative relationships to the topics of marriage, sex, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Gendering Recogimiento in Early Modern Madrid\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI. Reforming Prostitutes: Madrid’s Magdalen House\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII. Reforming the Magdalen House: Madre Magdalena de San JerÓnimo’s galera\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII. Recogimiento as a Women’s Practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart Two\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Stage Widow in Pedro CalderÓn de la Barca’s La dama duende\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Dramatizing Women’s Community in MarÍa de Zayas’s La traiciÓn en la amistad\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Women’s Exemplary Violence in Luis VÉlez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1A Reason and Form of the Galera and Royal House (1608)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1B RazÓn y forma de la galera y casa real (1608)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2A Historical Compendium and Instructive Manifesto on the Origin and Foundation of the Royal House of St. Mary Magdalene of the Penitence, commonly known as the Recogidas of Madrid\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 2B Compendio histÓrico, y manifiesto instructivo del origen, y fundaciÓn de la Real Casa de Santa MarÍa Magdalena de la Penitencia, vulgo las Recogidas de Madrid\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52716425281816,"sku":"9781442646155","price":35.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unruly-women-performance-penitence-and-punishment-in-early-modern-spain-hardback-9781442646155","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}