Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature : prostitutes, aging women and saints / / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Juárez Almendros Encarnación
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2017; Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 860.9003
• Soggetto topico: Spanish literature - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Women with disabilities in literature; Women in literature; Sex role in literature
• Soggetto non controllato: Literature; Literary Theory; Literature History and Criticism; Fiction; Novelists and Prose Writers; Literary Studies - c 1500 to c 1800; Hispanic and Latino Studies; Spain; Modern Period; Women's Bodies; Disability
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: '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, Encarnación Juárez-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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature
• ISBN: 1-78694-501-0; 1-78694-844-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910306640303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Representations (Liverpool, England)