Introduction: the perception of women in the Spanish comedia / Dawn L. Smith -- Dama duende and the shifting characterization of Calderon's diabolical angel / Catherine Larson -- Dama duende: spatial and hymeneal dialectics / Maria Martino Crocetti -- "Y sois hombre o sois mujer?": sex and gender in Tirso's Don Gil de las calzas verdes / Matthew Stroud -- Ana Caro's Re-evaluation of the mujer varonil and her theatrics in Valor, agravio y mujer / Teresa S. Soufas -- Subversion through comedy?: two plays by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Maria de Zayas / Constance Wilkins -- Profeminist reactions to Huarte's misogyny in Lope de Vega's La prueba de los ingenios and Maria de Zayas's Novelas amorosas y ejemplares / Daniel Heiple -- Lope's other dama boba: the strategy of incompetence / Margaret R. Hicks -- The sources and feminism of Lope's Las mujeres sin hombres / Michael D. McGaha -- The politics of rape and fineza in Calderonian myth plays / Thomas Austin O'Connor -- "The rape of Deianeira" in Calderon's El pintor de su deshonra / Marcia L. Welles -- A time for heroines in Lope / Thomas Case -- Paradox and role reversal in La serrana de la Vera / Ruth Lundelius -- Lope's El anzuelo de Fenisa: a woman for all seasons / Anita K. Stoll -- Sexual inversion: carnival and la mujer varonil in La fenix de Salamanca and La tercera de si misma / Amy R. Williamsen.