Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Women’s Imagined Roles in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Seclusion in the Midst of Progress and Early Feminist Reactions

2. Coming of Age(ncy): Refugio Barragán de Toscano’s La hija del bandido

3. Women in Peru: National and Private Struggles for Independence

4. New Models for New Women: Rethinking Cinderella’s Virtues and Humanizing the Stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera’s Blanca Sol

5. Women as Body in Puerto Rico: Medicine, Morality, and Institutionalizations of Sexual Oppression in the Long Nineteenth Century

6. Sexual Agency in Ana Roqué’s Luz y sombra: A Subversion of the Essentialized Woman

Conclusions

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Nancy LaGreca is Assistant Professor in the Modern Languages and Literature Department at the University of Oklahoma.