TY - BOOK AU - LaGreca,Nancy TI - Rewriting womanhood: feminism, subjectivity, and the angel of the house in the Latin American novel, 1887-1903 T2 - The Penn State Romance studies series SN - 9780271027142 AV - PQ7081.L179.R497 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - University Park, Pa. PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Spanish American literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Feminism and literature KW - Latin America KW - Women in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions --; Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido --; Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence --; New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol --; Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century --; Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman; 2; b N2 - "An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragán of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roqué of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis à vis the prescribed comportment for women during a conservative era"--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=272934&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -