Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)

Blowout Sale! Save 72% on the Reclaiming the Body: María de Zayas's Early Modern Feminism (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies at Translate This Website. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. In a time when few women in Europe were educated and even fewer spoke out against the status quo, Maria de Zayas (1590–?) published novellas filled with criticism about gender relations. Her best-selling Novelas amorosas (1637) and Desenganos 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

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In a time when few women in Europe were educated and even fewer spoke out against the status quo, Maria de Zayas (1590–?) published novellas filled with criticism about gender relations. Her best-selling Novelas amorosas (1637) and Desenganos 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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Manufacturer:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Publisher:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Studio:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
EAN:	9780807892749
Item Weight:	0.77 pounds
Item Size:	0.59 x 9.1 x 9.1 inches
Package Weight:	1 pounds
Package Size:	5.95 x 0.77 x 0.77 inches

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