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

"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, illustratin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Juárez Almendros, Encarnación (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Colección:Representations (Liverpool, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.