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Image one: E-book titled Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women, and Saints (2018) - synopsis: This study explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory, and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce, and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza, and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women’s disability.
Image two: E-book titled Nuclear Summer: The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment (1992) - synopsis: When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and physically harassed the protestors, and nearly rioted to stop one of the protest marches? Louise Krasniewicz reconstructs the drama surrounding the Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in Seneca County, New York, analyzing it as a clash both between and within communities. She shows how debates about gender and authority―including questions of morality, patriotism, women’s roles, and sexuality―came to overshadow arguments about the risks of living in a nuclear world.
