TY - GEN AU - Juárez-Almendros,Encarnación TI - Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature : Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints SN - j.ctt1ps32vm PY - 2017///1231 CY - Liverpool PB - Liverpool University Press KW - Literary theory KW - bicssc KW - Literature KW - Literary Theory KW - Literature History and Criticism KW - Fiction KW - Novelists and Prose Writers KW - Literary Studies - c 1500 to c 1800 KW - Hispanic and Latino Studies KW - Spain KW - Modern Period KW - Women's Bodies KW - Disability N1 - Open Access N2 - Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature 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. It 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26017/1/1004068.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26017/1/1004068.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26017/1/1004068.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33471 ER -