List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Colonialism and Women's Migrations
1. The Colonial Politics of Meteorology: The West African Expedition of the Urquiola Sisters
Benita Sampedro Vizcaya
2. Eva Canel and the Gender of Hispanism
Lisa Surwillo
3. Gender, Race, and Spain's Colonial Legacy in the Americas: Representations of White Slavery in Eugenio Flores's Trata de blancas and Eduardo Lopez Bago's Carne importada
Akiko Tsuchiya

Part II. Race, Performance, and Colonial Ideologies
4. A Black Woman Called Blanca la extranjera in Faustina Saez de Melgar's Los miserables (1862-63)
Ana Mateos
5. Colonial Imaginings on the Stage: Blackface, Gender, and the Economics of Empire in Spanish and Catalan Popular Theater
Mar Soria

Part III. Gender and Colonialism in Literary and Political Debates
6. Becoming Useless: Masculinity, Able-Bodiedness, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Julia Chang
7. From Imperial Boots to Naked Feet: Clarin's Views on Cuban Freedom and Female Independence in La Regenta
Nuria Godon
8. Dalagas and Ilustrados: Gender, Language, and Indigeneity in the Philippine Colonies
Joyce Tolliver
9. The Spanish Carceral Archipelago: Concepcion Arenal against Penitentiary Colonization
Aurelie Vialette
Contributors
Index

N. Michelle Murray is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University and the author of Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture. Akiko Tsuchiya is Professor of Spanish and Affiliate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the coeditor (with William G. Acree Jr.) of Empire's End: Transnational Connections in the Hispanic World and the author of Marginal Subjects: Gender and Deviance in Fin-de-Siècle Spain and Images of the Sign: Semiotic Consciousness in the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós.