Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781786948441
Series Statement:
Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society Ser. v.7
Content:
This study 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, concluding 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.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Creation of Female Disability: Medical, Prescriptive and Moral Discourses -- II. The Artifice of Syphilitic and Damaged Female Bodies in Literature -- III. The Disabling of Aging Female Bodies: Midwives, Procuresses, Witches and the Monstrous Mother -- IV. Historical Testimony of Female Disability: The Neurological Impairment of Teresa de Ávila -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786940780
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781786940780
Language:
English
