Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints

• מחבר ראשי: Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación (auth)
• פורמט: אלקטרוני Book Chapter
• שפה: אנגלית
• יצא לאור: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2017
• סדרה: Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
• נושאים: Literary theory; Literature; Literary Theory; Literature History and Criticism; Fiction; Novelists and Prose Writers; Literary Studies - c 1500 to c 1800; Hispanic and Latino Studies; Spain; Modern Period; Women's Bodies; Disability
• גישה מקוונת: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

סיכום

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature 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. It 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.

ISBN

j.ctt1ps32vm
9781786948441

גישה

Open Access