Mónica Díaz is Associate professor of Hispanic Studies and History, and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.Rocío Quispe-Agnoli is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

• ContentsIntroduction: Uncovering Women’s Colonial Archive Mónica Díaz, and Rocío Quispe–Agnoli Censorship and the BodyDivine Aspirations: Beatas, Writing, and the Inquisition in Late Seventeenth–Century Lima.Stacey SchlauCovert Afro–Catholic Agency in the Mystical Visions of Early Modern Brazil’s Rosa Maria Egipçíaca. Rachel Spaulding ‘In So Celestial a Language’: Text as Body, Relics as Text. Nancy E. van DeusenFemale Authority and Legal DiscourseIn the Shadow of Coatlicue’s Smile: Reconstructing Indigenous Female Subjectivity in the Spanish Colonial Record. Jeanne GillespieInca Women Under Spanish Rule: Probanzas and Informaciones of the Colonial Andean Elite.Sara Vicuña GuenguerichThe Bonds of Inheritance: Afro–Peruvian Women’s Legacies in a Slave–holding World. Karen GraubartPrivate Lives and Public OpinionLetters from the Río de La Plata: Agency and Identity in Colonial Women’s Petitions.Yamile SilvaWomen’s Voices in Eighteenth–Century Spanish American Newspapers. Mariselle MeléndezList of ContributorsIndex

Mónica Díaz is Associate professor of Hispanic Studies and History, and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.Rocío Quispe-Agnoli is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

• ContentsIntroduction: Uncovering Women’s Colonial Archive Mónica Díaz, and Rocío Quispe–Agnoli Censorship and the BodyDivine Aspirations: Beatas, Writing, and the Inquisition in Late Seventeenth–Century Lima.Stacey SchlauCovert Afro–Catholic Agency in the Mystical Visions of Early Modern Brazil’s Rosa Maria Egipçíaca. Rachel Spaulding ‘In So Celestial a Language’: Text as Body, Relics as Text. Nancy E. van DeusenFemale Authority and Legal DiscourseIn the Shadow of Coatlicue’s Smile: Reconstructing Indigenous Female Subjectivity in the Spanish Colonial Record. Jeanne GillespieInca Women Under Spanish Rule: Probanzas and Informaciones of the Colonial Andean Elite.Sara Vicuña GuenguerichThe Bonds of Inheritance: Afro–Peruvian Women’s Legacies in a Slave–holding World. Karen GraubartPrivate Lives and Public OpinionLetters from the Río de La Plata: Agency and Identity in Colonial Women’s Petitions.Yamile SilvaWomen’s Voices in Eighteenth–Century Spanish American Newspapers. Mariselle MeléndezList of ContributorsIndex

Mónica Díaz is Associate professor of Hispanic Studies and History, and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.Rocío Quispe-Agnoli is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

• ContentsIntroduction: Uncovering Women’s Colonial Archive Mónica Díaz, and Rocío Quispe–Agnoli Censorship and the BodyDivine Aspirations: Beatas, Writing, and the Inquisition in Late Seventeenth–Century Lima.Stacey SchlauCovert Afro–Catholic Agency in the Mystical Visions of Early Modern Brazil’s Rosa Maria Egipçíaca. Rachel Spaulding ‘In So Celestial a Language’: Text as Body, Relics as Text. Nancy E. van DeusenFemale Authority and Legal DiscourseIn the Shadow of Coatlicue’s Smile: Reconstructing Indigenous Female Subjectivity in the Spanish Colonial Record. Jeanne GillespieInca Women Under Spanish Rule: Probanzas and Informaciones of the Colonial Andean Elite.Sara Vicuña GuenguerichThe Bonds of Inheritance: Afro–Peruvian Women’s Legacies in a Slave–holding World. Karen GraubartPrivate Lives and Public OpinionLetters from the Río de La Plata: Agency and Identity in Colonial Women’s Petitions.Yamile SilvaWomen’s Voices in Eighteenth–Century Spanish American Newspapers. Mariselle MeléndezList of ContributorsIndex