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Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints (Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP) by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints (Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP) about?
This study 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, concluding 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.
Who reads Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints (Representations Health Disability Culture and Society LUP)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781786940780
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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