"A valuable and logical step in the progression of critical studies on convent writing. . . . We have moved from seeing women writers as working at the margins

"First peoples: new directions in ethnic studies"

Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico.

In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called mo

Nuns are hardly associated in the popular mind with rebellion and turmoil. In fact, convents have often been the scenes of conflict, but what went on behind the