Women's participation, both formal and informal, in the creation of what we now call Spanish America is reflected in its literary legacy. Stacey Schlau examines what women from a wide spectrum of cla
Remarkable female writers have often been overlooked in literary histories. Sor Juana was marginalized further by being illegitimate, Creole and living in colonial Mexico in the late seventeenth centu
Called by her contemporaries 'The Tenth Muse,' Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have mem
When it appeared in 1989, Untold Sisters was the first general introduction to Hispanic convent culture published in the United States. Since then, much has been learned about the links among women o
