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Reviews213 Gender, Identity, andRepresentation in Spain s Golden Age. Ed. Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2000. 208 pp. Is it possible to "correct the oversight ofthe place ofwomen in Golden Age Spain," as the editors envision in their introduction? Certainly for the past fifteen years, questions of gender roles and women's writing have been prominent in Golden Age studies. Parallel to the publication in modem editions of womens's texts—convent literature (Arenal/Schlau 1989), poetry (Olivares/Boyce 1993), drama (Soufas 1997), and narrative (Whitenack/Campbell 2000)—have been numerous monographs and collections focusing from various angles on every aspect of women's position in the male-dominated society of early modem Spain. The present volume seeks to break further ground by emphasizing gender ambivalence , a hot topic both in the academy and in popular culture. The nine essays, all by well-known scholars, are divided into "Men Representing
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Reviews213 Gender, Identity, andRepresentation in Spain s Golden Age. Ed. Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2000. 208 pp. Is it possible to "correct the oversight ofthe place ofwomen in Golden Age Spain," as the editors envision in their introduction? Certainly for the past fifteen years, questions of gender roles and women's writing have been prominent in Golden Age studies. Parallel to the publication in modem editions of womens's texts—convent literature (Arenal/Schlau 1989), poetry (Olivares/Boyce 1993), drama (Soufas 1997), and narrative (Whitenack/Campbell 2000)—have been numerous monographs and collections focusing from various angles on every aspect of women's position in the male-dominated society of early modem Spain. The present volume seeks to break further ground by emphasizing gender ambivalence , a hot topic both in the academy and in popular culture. The nine essays, all by well-known scholars, are divided into "Men Representing
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