Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature : prostitutes, aging women and saints

Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature prostitutes, aging women and saints

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'Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints provides a politically urgent critical approach to disability and female corporeality in early modern Spanish literary and social discourse. Rigorous in its historical contextualization and offering innovat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Juárez Almendros, Encarnación, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2017.
Colección:Representations (Liverpool, England)
Materias:
Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Women with disabilities in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Spanish medical discourses
monstrous mother
Feminist disability
deviance
Early modern Spanish literature
Celestina
Lozana andaluza
deviant female characters
disability theory
Syphilis
procuresses
Early modern female corporality
Quevedo
midwives
Cervantes
Teresa de Avila
Aging
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424538206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The creation of female disability : medical, prescriptive and moral discourses
  • The artifice of syphilitic and damaged female bodies in literature
  • The disabling of aging female bodies : midwives, procuresses, witches and the monstrous mother
  • Historical testimony of female disability : the neurological impairment of Teresa de Ávila
  • Conclusion.

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