Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700

Contents: Introduction: Modesty's charge: feminist functionalism and 17th-century feminist theory; 'Now sisters ... impart your usefulnesse, and force': Anne Bradstreet's feminist functionalism; 'Cuerpo luminoso': body and soul in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Promero SueA+/-o; 'I doe not thinke the body that dyes shall rise agayne': Anne Hutchinson's mortalism as feminist functionalism; Femmes fortes: mysticism and the female apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• História da medicina
• Estudos Hispânicos e Latino
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• Estudos regionais

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