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Gendered Matters

Engaging Research on Early Modern Dramaturgas in the Classroom

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After almost three decades of researching and teaching the many Early Modern women writers who wrote in Spanish across the globe, certain moments stand out in acutely vivid detail: A well-intentioned mentor, discretely pulling one of us aside after a conference panel to admonish, “You have real potential—I don’t want you to waste it on these women writers—you’ll only marginalize yourself.”

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Hegstrom, V., Williamsen, A.R. (2015). Gendered Matters. In: Gómez, L., Horno-Delgado, A., Long, M.K., Silleras-Fernández, N. (eds) Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures. Teaching Gender. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-091-8_6

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