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Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism

Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism

Vollendorf, Lisa

Paperback

Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 270

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0807892742
ISBN13: 9780807892749
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: Jan 1 2001
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In a time when few women in Europe were educated and even fewer spoke out against the status quo, María de Zayas (1590-?) published novellas filled with criticism about gender relations. Her best-selling Novelas amorosas (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647) explore the pleasures and, more frequently, the perils of sex and marriage. Condemned as lewd, Zayas's work was excised from the literary canon by nineteenth-century scholars. But with the feminist revolution of the 1970s came a renewed interest in her fiction. Zayas's contemporary appeal is easily explained: through graphic images of violence against women and poignant examples of women's exclusion from social justice, she speaks to important issues of our own times.

Lisa Vollendorf illuminates this compelling author, using contemporary feminist theory to decipher the nuances of Zayas's complex ideologies. Revealing Zayas as a critical figure in European women's literary history, Vollendorf delineates the strategies and impulses behind early modern feminism.

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