"A valuable and logical step in the progression of critical studies on convent writing. . . . We have moved from seeing women writers as working at the margins

"First peoples: new directions in ethnic studies"

Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico.

In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called mo