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1 electronic resource (viii, 201 pages). |
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Representations: Health, disability, culture and society |
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Representations (Liverpool, England)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-194) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
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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. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Subject |
Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Women with disabilities in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in Literature |
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Disabled Persons -- history |
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Women -- history |
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Body Image |
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Literature, Modern -- history |
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600 |
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Spain |
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Handicapées dans la littérature.
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Femmes dans la littérature.
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Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
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Médecine dans la littérature.
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Literary theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Medicine in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Spanish literature -- Classical period
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Women in literature
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Women with disabilities in literature
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1700
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| Indexed Term |
Literature |
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Literary Theory |
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Literature History and Criticism |
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Fiction |
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Novelists and Prose Writers |
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Literary Studies - c 1500 to c 1800 |
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Hispanic and Latino Studies |
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Spain |
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Modern Period |
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Women's Bodies |
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Disability |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017. 9781786940780 (DLC) 2018487317 |
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ebook version : 9781786948441 |
| ISBN |
9781786940780 (electronic bk.) |
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1786940787 (electronic bk.) |
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1786940787 (hardback) |
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9781786948441 |
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1786948443 |
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9781786945013 (online) |
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1786945010 |
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UKMGB 018558001 |
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CHVBK 556239296 |
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CHNEW 001035467 |
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AU@ 000066528226 |
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AU@ 000066394914 |
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AU@ 000066007037 |
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AU@ 000065956322 |
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AU@ 000065060943 |
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AU@ 000068589771 |
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:999919768905765 |
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