By Georgina Dopico Black
ISBN-10: 0822326426
ISBN-13: 9780822326427
ISBN-10: 0822326507
ISBN-13: 9780822326502
Subject to the scrutiny of a striking array of gazes—inquisitors, theologians, spiritual reformers, confessors, poets, playwrights, and, no longer least between them, husbands—the our bodies of excellent and imperfect other halves elicited varied readings. Dopico Black unearths how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and fiscal decline each one contributed to a correspondence among the meanings of those human our bodies and “other” our bodies, reminiscent of these of the Jew, the Moor, the Lutheran, the degenerate, and whoever else departed from a famous norm. The physique of the spouse, in different phrases, turned linked to different types break away anatomy, reflecting the actual hermeneutics hired through the Inquisition in regards to the surveillance of otherness.
Dopico Black’s compelling argument will interact scholars of Spanish and Spanish American heritage and literature, gender reviews, women’s stories, social psychology and cultural studies.
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