Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints

by Encarnacion Juarez-Almendros and Encarnación Juárez-Almendros

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786940787
• ISBN13: 9781786940780
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"