Genre, agentivité et performance du corps : la construction d’une rhétorique de l’exceptionnalité féminine dans des biographies spirituelles portugaises du XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles

This article is the result of ongoing work on female body representations through a set of Portuguese devout biographies from the 17th to 18th centuries. Holiness being one of the only socially accepted ways for certain women to gain notoriety and thus pass from the margins to the center of power (i...

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Main Author: Helena QUEIRÓS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2020-12-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/11212