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Explores the construction of gendered subjectivities in early modern Hispanic literature by surveying texts produced by or concerning women and non-conforming subjects that expose normative discourses around representation and participation in politics and literature, complicating notions of agency and intellectual authority. Topics include the politics of self-representation; the relationship between political discourse and the supernatural; questions of intersectionality of class, gender, race, and sexuality; and female agency and creativity. Readings include Leonor López de Córdoba, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Catalina/Antonio de Erauso, María de Zayas, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.