Exploring Nuns in New Spain through the Lens of Clerical Misogyny and Male Domination. Review of Stephanie Kirk's <em>Convent Life in Colonial México. A Tale of Two Communities</em> (Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2007)
Keywords
Latin American Cultural Studies, Literature, Criticsm, Latin American History, Latin American Politics, Colonialism, Convent life, Nuns
Keywords
Latin American Cultural Studies, Literature, Criticsm, Latin American History, Latin American Politics, Colonialism, Convent life, Nuns
Abstract
This book uses literary analysis of Mexican texts from the 1600s and 1700s to suggest that two separate communities existed within female convents in New Spain. Kirk defines the two communities as “the bonds, alliances, friendships, and micro- and macro-communities of different kinds” created by nuns within thec onvent, “that stood in opposition to the controlled community that he Church authorities attempted to impose from outside”.
Published
2007-02-01
Section
Reviews / Reseñas