Peter Stallybrass, «Patriarchal Territories», p. 133. (N. from the A.)

Perhaps the two most influential conduct manuals in Spain were Fray Luis de León's La perfecta casada (Salamanca, 1583), and Juan Luis Vives' Instrucción de la mujer cristiana, translated into Spanish in 1528. See also Gaspar de Astete, Tratado del gouierno de la familia y estado de las viudas y doncellas (Burgos, 1603); Juan Espinosa, Diálogo en laude de las mujeres, (1580). For extensive documentation on this topic, see Ruth Kelso, Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance; also, Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). (N. from the A.)

Haraway (1991), p. 138, points this out as she explicates Wittig's, and the editors' of Questions féministes position in 1980: «Wittig argued that all women belong to a class constituted by the hierarchical social relation of sexual difference that gives men ideological, political and economic power over women». Underlining in the original. (N. from the A.)

David Quint, Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature: Versions of the Source (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), p. 4. (N. from the A.)

Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990), p. 29. (N. from the A.)

Fray Luis de León's La perfecta casada is dedicated to the aristocratic Doña María Varela Osorio, but abounds in chapters obviously intended for more common readers: «Buscó lana y lino, y obró con el saber de sus manos»; «Ciñose de fortaleza y fortificó su brazo. Tomó gusto en el granjear; su candela no se apagó de noche. Puso sus manos en la tortera, y sus dedos tomaron el huso». The same can be said of Juan Luis Vives' Instrucción de la mujer cristiana, purportedly intended for the princess of the English court. (N. from the A.)

Victoria Kahn, Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 192. (N. from the A.)

Victoria Kahn, Rhetoric, p. 192. Underlining in the original. (N. from the A.)

See Walter L. Reed, An Exemplary History of the Novel: the Quixotic versus the Picaresque (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1981), p. 27, and pp. 71-92 on readers and reading. (N. from the A.)

«The Mimesis of Reading in the Renaissance», in Mimesis from Mirror to Method, Augustine to Descartes, John D. Lyons and Stephen G. Nichols, Jr., eds. (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1982), p. 156. (N. from the A.)