{"product_id":"perfect-wives-other-women-9780822326427","title":"Perfect Wives Other Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the role played by women's bodies - specifically the bodies of wives - in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. This title reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the meanings of these human bodies and \"other\" bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePerfect Wives, Other Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a theoretically informed and elegantly conceived study that combines sharp focus and broad scope. A superb work.”—James D. Fernández, author of \u003ci\u003eApology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self-Representation in Spain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Perfect Wives, Other Women \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkable and brilliant work. Ample in scope, lucidly and vividly argued, it traces the taut histories that link the figure of the\u003ci\u003e wife\u003c\/i\u003e with the languages and institutions of\u003ci\u003e inquisition\u003c\/i\u003e in the literary, legal, and religious cultures of early modern Spain. It is indispensable reading not just for students of Spain´s Golden Age, but also for those interested in the articulation of institutional cultures and the somatic imaginary in early modern European culture more broadly.”—Jacques Lezra, University of Wisconsin, Madison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Preface \u003cbr\u003e 1. Visible Signs: Reading the Wife’s Body in Early Modern Spain \u003cbr\u003e 2. “Pasos de un peregrino”: Luis de León Reads the Perfect Wife \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Perfected Wife: Signs of Adultery and the Adultery of Signs in Calderón’s \u003ci\u003eEl médico de su honra\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. Sor Juana’s \u003ci\u003eEmpeños:\u003c\/i\u003e The Imperfect Wife \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Como anillo al dedo \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026776919,"sku":"9780822326427","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822326427.jpg?v=1730494290","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perfect-wives-other-women-9780822326427","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}