An Issue of Gender Women's Perceptions and Perceptions of Women in Hispanic Society and Literature

Abstract

The present Number is the first which, through more than three score years and ten of continued publication, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies has dedicated wholly to illuminating—with discussions of currently influential theories, and by analyses of novels, plays and poems composed in a variety of different places and epochs—the natures, roles and problems of women within the always shifting realities of Hispanic Life and Letters. Seven original articles are included, of which all are written by women, and of which all but one concern the work of writers who are also women. Among the authors studied two lived and wrote creatively during the Golden Age of the seventeenth century in Spain and the Spanish Empire. ‘Ana Caro, una escritora de “oficio” del Siglo de Oro’ was, or so it appears, a native of Seville who, between 1628–1645, wrote poems, relaciones, comedias and autos. Caro's activities and writings, too long neglected by other critics, are documented and studied, appropriately, with scrupulous atten...