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