Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Acknowledgments XI
4. Introduction XIII
5. Part I. The Religious Narrative
6. 1. Writers in Spite of Themselves: The Mystical Nuns of Seventeenth-Century Mexico 3
7. 2. Sor Juana Explores Space 23
8. 3. The Power of the Spider Woman: The Deluded Woman and the Inquisition 55
9. Part II. The Nation
10. 4. Sense and Sensuality: Notes on the National Period, 1812–1910 79
11. 5. Body and Soul: Women and Postrevolutionary Messianism 102
12. 6. On the Impossibility of Antigone and the Inevitability of La Malinche: Rewriting the National Allegory 129
13. 7. Oedipus Modernized 147
14. 8. Rewriting the Family: Contemporary Feminism's Revision of the Past 175
15. Notes 189
16. Index 229
17. Backmatter 237