Authorizing the wife/mother in sixteenth-century advice manuals / Carolyn Nadeau -- Identity, illusion, and the emergence of the feminine subject in La Lozana andaluza / John C. Parrack -- Skepticism and mysticism in early modern Spain: the combative stance of Teresa de Avila / Barbara Mujica -- The price of love: the conflictive economies of La gitanilla / William H. Clamurro -- The problematics of gender/genre in Vida i sucesos de la monja alférez / Rainer H. Goetz -- Relaciones de fiestas: Ana Caro's accounts of public spectacles / Sharon D. Voros -- Masquerade and the Comedia / Anita K. Stoll -- Dreams, voices, signatures: deciphering woman's desires in Angela de Azevedo's Dicha y desdicha del juego / Frederick A. de Armas -- Galatea's fall and the inner dynamics of Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea / Joseph V. Ricapito -- De voz extremada: Cervantes's women characters speak for themselves / Sara A. Taddeo -- Silence is/as golden...age device: Ana Caro's eloquent reticence in Valo, agravio y mujer / Monica Leoni -- Woman of the world and world of the woman in the narrative of Mariana de Caravajal / Louis Imperiale -- A cry in the wilderness: pastoral female discourse in Mari ̀de Zayas / Deborah Compte -- Zayas's ideal of the masculine: clothes make the man / Susan Paun de García -- Desire unbound: women's theater of Spain's golden age / Lisa Vollendorf