Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints |
|
| Author:
| Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación |
| Series title: | Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78694-078-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2018 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.50 |
Book Description:
|
This study 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, concluding 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.
This study 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, concluding 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.