UID:
kobvindex_HPB1038494580
Format:
1 online resource (209 pages)
ISBN:
9781786948441
,
1786948443
Series Statement:
Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP Ser.
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.
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación. Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints. Oxford : Liverpool University Press, ©2018 ISBN 9781786940780
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
