Spanish 330BW - Bad Women/Spanish Empire
Fall
2016
01
4.00
Maria Nieves Romero-Diaz
M 01:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
97346
Ciruti 217
rdiaz@mtholyoke.edu
97398,97346
During the Spanish Empire (16th-18th centuries), witches, prostitutes, transvestite warriors, lesbians and daring noblewomen and nuns violated the social order by failing to uphold the expected sexual morality of the ideal woman. They were silenced, criticized, punished, and even burned at the stake. Students will study contradictory discourses of good and evil and beauty and ugliness in relation to gender in the Spanish Empire. We will analyze historical and literary texts as well as film versions of so-called "bad" women -- such as the Celestina, Elena/o de Céspedes, Catalina de Erauso and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Prereq: Two 200-level Spanish courses above SPAN-212.