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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Author / Creator:	Juárez Almendros, Encarnación, author.
Imprint:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Description:	viii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Representations: Health, disability, culture and society Representations (Liverpool, England)
Subject:	Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Women with disabilities in literature. Women in literature. Sex role in literature. Sex role in literature. Spanish literature -- Classical period. Women in literature. Women with disabilities in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11670322

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ISBN:	9781786940780 1786940787
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-194) and index.
Summary:	"Examines the concept and roles of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to the 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 Ávila, a nun suffering from 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."--Page 4 of cover.

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Call Number:	PQ6066 .J827 2017
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