Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I The Creation of Female Disability: Medical, Prescriptive and Moral Discourses
- II The Artifice of Syphilitic and Damaged Female Bodies in Literature
- III The Disabling of Aging Female Bodies: Midwives, Procuresses, Witches and the Monstrous Mother
- IV Historical Testimony of Female Disability: The Neurological Impairment of Teresa de Ávila
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I The Creation of Female Disability: Medical, Prescriptive and Moral Discourses
- II The Artifice of Syphilitic and Damaged Female Bodies in Literature
- III The Disabling of Aging Female Bodies: Midwives, Procuresses, Witches and the Monstrous Mother
- IV Historical Testimony of Female Disability: The Neurological Impairment of Teresa de Ávila
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish LiteratureProstitutes, Aging Women and Saints, pp. 195 - 201Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2017