‘Oh! The one who covers her face / surely is not worth much’: Identity and social criticism in transatlantic Hispanic culture (1520–1860)
In 1639, a law prohibiting women any head covering; veil, mantilla, manto for example, is promulgated for the fifth time in the Iberian Peninsula under the penalty of losing the garment, and subsequently incurring more severe punishments. Regardless of these edicts this social practice continued. My...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2010
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3412061 |