"Con esta carga nacemos las mujeres": Discursos sobre el cuerpo femenino en la España de Cervantes
Madrid: Iberoamerican Editorial Vervuert (Series: Golden Hispanic Library, 148, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. 366p., facsimiles, bibl., indices, wrps. New. Item #79241
ISBN: 9788491922551
"Con esta carga nacemos las mujeres" about women that deals with the lives of that half of the population that had a completely different experience from the other half in the 16th and 17th centuries. Its chapters explore a story that has hardly been told and that literary fiction almost always eludes: that of how women lived the experience of inhabiting their own bodies in a strongly normative era with respect to the female subject. Woman was largely defined in relation to her body and more specifically to her sexuality. The scientific, medical, moral, economic, religious and legal discourses about it will form a corpus of practices and knowledge that will constitute a series of unquestionable 'truths' about its nature. The title of this study refers specifically to Cervantes,
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