| Course Title: Advanced Seminar: 'De Brujas and Other Bad Women in the Spanish Atlantic' |
| Start Date: 09/07/2022 End Date: 12/20/2022 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2022 |
| Description: During the Spanish Empire (15th-18th centuries), women who violated the social order by failing to uphold the expected sexual morality and gender norms of the "ideal woman" were considered a danger or categorized as "raras". They were silenced, criticized, punished, and some burned at the stake as witches. Students will study contradictory discourses of good and evil and beauty and ugliness in relation to gender in the Spanish Atlantic. 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, Antonio/Catalina de Erauso and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Maria Nieves Romero-Díaz | rdiaz@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/07/2022 - 12/20/2022 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 216 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: Two 200-level Spanish courses above SPAN-212. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in Spanish. |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| SPAN-330BW-01 Bad Women/Spanish Empire |
| GNDST-333BW-01 Bad Women/Spanish Empire |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 19 | Enrollment: 19 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Answer / La Respuesta: Including Sor Filotea's Letter and Selected Poem Author: De La Cruz, Sor Juana Inés Copyright: 2009 Edition: 2nd Volume: ISBN: 1558615989 Publisher: Feminist Press (expanded Editon) |
Required | 17.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Paperback, it can be new or used. Other option: ebook (Kindle, google books etc) |