TY  - BOOK
AU  - Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt1ps32vm
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004068
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100523315
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literary Theory
KW  - Literature History and Criticism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Novelists and Prose Writers
KW  - Literary Studies - c 1500 to c 1800
KW  - Hispanic and Latino Studies
KW  - Spain
KW  - Modern Period
KW  - Women's Bodies
KW  - Disability
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/16992dbe-6050-4d25-8f60-996f515654c9/1004068.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26017
PB  - Liverpool University Press
PP  - Liverpool
PY  - 2017-12-31
SN  - 9781786948441
TI  - Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints
ER  - 
