Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts...
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Liverpool University Press
2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1813051&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: nlebk uiTerm: 1813051 longDbName: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: btl: Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints aug: au: Encarnación Juárez-Almendros sertl: Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society isbn: 9781786940780 9781786948441 imageinfo: pubinfo: dt: @attributes: year: 2017 month: 01 day: 01 dtAvail: @attributes: year: 2018 month: 05 day: 22 pub: Liverpool University Press pubContract: Liverpool University Press / Books place: Liverpool price: 0.01 limitsGroup: maxCheckoutDays: 1500 pda: N printPagesOffline: 100 printPagesOnline: 100 previewPages: 10000 prePubGroup: dewey: @attributes: class: 860.9003 item: 860 .9003 lc: @attributes: class: PQ6066 item: PQ 6066 artinfo: ui: 1813051 1019619412 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: EB doid: NL$1813051$PDF caption: PDF download: Y tig: atl: Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints ptl: Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature aug: au: Encarnación Juárez-Almendros su: Medicine in literature Sex role in literature Women with disabilities in literature Women in literature Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism sug: subj: LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist HISTORY / Europe / Spain LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women Medicine in literature Sex role in literature Women with disabilities in literature Women in literature Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism ab: An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. This study explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women's disability. By expanding the meanings of contemporary theories of materiality and the social construction of disability, the book concludes that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power. Ultimately, as this study shows, the broken female bodies of pre-industrial Spanish literature reveal the cracks in the foundational principles of power and established truths. pubtype: eBook doctype: Book ougenre: Book language: English copyright: @attributes: flag: N copyrightText: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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