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Examines public exhibitions of human anatomy from their first appearance in the early 1700s to the present day, and how these exhibitions taught their spectators to see their bodies.

This study 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, concluding that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power.