Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. 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, illustrat