Female Criminality and “Fake News” in Early Modern Spanish Pliegos Sueltos

Stacey L. Parker Aronson is a Professor of Spanish at the University of Minnesota Morris. She earned her M.A. in Spanish at the University of Kansas and her Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literature at the University of Minnesota. At the University of Minnesota Morris, she teaches all levels of language and literature. She conducts and publishes research on 16th-17th century Spanish Peninsular literature, particularly literature by women; the literary representation of sexual violence; Cervantes; and the theme of female criminality in early modern Spanish broadsheets (pliegos sueltos). She has published in such journals as Bulletin de los Comediantes, Cervantes, Hispanic Journal, Laberinto Journal, Letras Femeninas, Letras Peninsulares, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Romance Notes and in the book Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There, published by Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Introduction to the Pliegos Sueltos

Women as Bandits and Highway Robbers

Women as Murderers: Mariticide and Infanticide

Women as Prostitutes, Libertines, (and Actors)

Women as Christian Renegades

Women as Enslaved Individuals

Women as Witches and Sorceresses

Women as Miscegenationists

Women Punished (and Transformed into Hybrids)

Conclusion