Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature : prostitutes, aging women and saints /
Juárez Almendros, Encarnación,
Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature : prostitutes, aging women and saints / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros. - 1 electronic resource (viii, 201 pages). - Representations: Health, disability, culture and society . - Representations (Liverpool, England) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-194) and index.
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.
"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.
9781786940780 1786940787 9781786945013 1786945010
9781786948441 Liverpool University Press 22573/ctt1pr7p39 JSTOR 102602 Knowledge Unlatched
2019667540
GBB7J5914 bnb GBB7J6828 bnb
018557087 Uk 101735522 DNLM 018558001 Uk
1500-1700
Spanish literature--History and criticism.--Classical period, 1500-1700
Women with disabilities in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Medicine in Literature.
Disabled Persons--history.
Women--history.
Body Image.
Literature, Modern--history.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
Literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--Spanish & Portuguese.
Sex role in literature.
Spanish literature--Classical period.
Women in literature.
Women with disabilities in literature.
Spain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ6066
860.9/003
2018 I-703 WZ 330
Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature : prostitutes, aging women and saints / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros. - 1 electronic resource (viii, 201 pages). - Representations: Health, disability, culture and society . - Representations (Liverpool, England) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-194) and index.
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.
"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.
9781786940780 1786940787 9781786945013 1786945010
9781786948441 Liverpool University Press 22573/ctt1pr7p39 JSTOR 102602 Knowledge Unlatched
2019667540
GBB7J5914 bnb GBB7J6828 bnb
018557087 Uk 101735522 DNLM 018558001 Uk
1500-1700
Spanish literature--History and criticism.--Classical period, 1500-1700
Women with disabilities in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Medicine in Literature.
Disabled Persons--history.
Women--history.
Body Image.
Literature, Modern--history.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
Literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--Spanish & Portuguese.
Sex role in literature.
Spanish literature--Classical period.
Women in literature.
Women with disabilities in literature.
Spain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ6066
860.9/003
2018 I-703 WZ 330