Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gendering recogimiento in early modern Madrid
  • Reforming prostitutes: Madrid's Magdalen House
  • Reforming the Magdalen House: Madre Magdalena de San Jerónimo's galera
  • Recogimiento as a women's practice
  • State widow in Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La dama duende
  • Dramatizing women's community in María de Zayas's La traición en la amistad
  • Women's exemplary violence in Luis Velez de Guevara's La serrana de la Vera
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: "Bad girls" of the Spanish Comedia.