LEADER 05325nam 22007332 450 001 9910306640303321 005 20190717105614.0 010 $a1-78694-501-0 010 $a1-78694-844-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000004821689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5400976 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001992431 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781786948441 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6427254 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6427254 035 $a(OCoLC)1019619412 035 $a(ScCtBLL)a19729d3-dd7d-4a47-9a69-134ffbd818b2 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33471 035 $a(PPN)266615783 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004821689 100 $a20190507d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature $eprostitutes, aging women and saints /$fEncarnacio?n Jua?rez-Almendros$b[electronic resource] 210 $aLiverpool$cLiverpool University Press$d2017 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 201 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aRepresentations: Health, disability, culture and society 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019). 311 $a1-78694-078-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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 A?vila -- Conclusion. 330 $a'Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints provides a politically urgent critical approach to disability and female corporeality in early modern Spanish literary and social discourse. Rigorous in its historical contextualization and offering innovative, compelling readings of classic works, this book challenges familiar interpretations of women's bodies in texts of this period, transforming prior disciplinary boundaries and categories of analysis.' Professor Susan Antebi, University of Toronto 'Blending historical context and literary text with disability studies method, Encarnacio?n Jua?rez-Almendros sets out to challenge the foundations of early modern scholarship through a long-awaited critical feminist examination of disability as both a social construction and an embodied material experience.' Benjamin Fraser, Professor and Chair, Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences, East Carolina University Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints 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. 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 Avila, a nun suffering 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. 410 0$aRepresentations (Liverpool, England) 606 $aSpanish literature$yClassical period, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen with disabilities in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 610 $aLiterature 610 $aLiterary Theory 610 $aLiterature History and Criticism 610 $aFiction 610 $aNovelists and Prose Writers 610 $aLiterary Studies - c 1500 to c 1800 610 $aHispanic and Latino Studies 610 $aSpain 610 $aModern Period 610 $aWomen's Bodies 610 $aDisability 615 0$aSpanish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen with disabilities in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a860.9003 700 $aJua?rez Almendros$b Encarnacio?n$0851896 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910306640303321 996 $aDisabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature$91902185 997 $aUNINA