In "Perfect Wives, Other Women" Georgina Dopico Black examines the
role played by women's bodies--specifically the bodies of wives--in
Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to
show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the
site of anxious inquiry, Dopico Black mines a variety of Golden Age
texts for instances in which the era's persistent preoccupation
with racial, religious, and cultural otherness was reflected in the
depiction of women.
Subject to the scrutiny of a remarkable array of
gazes--inquisitors, theologians, religious reformers, confessors,
poets, playwrights, and, not least among them, husbands--the bodies
of perfect and imperfect wives elicited diverse readings. Dopico
Black reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and
economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the
meanings of these human bodies and "other" bodies, such as those of
the Jew, the Moor, the Lutheran, the degenerate, and whoever else
departed from a recognized norm. The body of the wife, in other
words, became associated with categories separate from anatomy,
reflecting the particular hermeneutics employed during the
Inquisition regarding the surveillance of otherness.
Dopico Black's compelling argument will engage students of Spanish
and Spanish American history and literature, gender studies,
women's studies, social psychology and cultural studies.
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