CfP: Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective
We are seeking submissions for an interdisciplinary collection of essays tentatively titled
Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective
This
edited volume seeks to put into conversation a range of historical,
literary, and cultural texts and objects related to the theory,
practice, and experience of health and healing from an Iberian-Global
and gendered perspective, between 1500-1700. We invite papers that
broadly interrogate the concepts of “health” and “healing” from all
geographical areas within early modern Iberia and its global kingdoms.
We encourage innovative responses to the topics that include but are not
limited to: interactions between healer and patient; health status,
belief and spiritual (religious and magical) practices; creation and
circulation of drugs, herbal remedies, and the status and representation
of herbalists and apothecaries; the professionalization of medicine and
gendered divisions of labor and care; recipe books, diet practices and
access to food. We are also interested in the ways early modern health
discourse intersected with the sensory world: how were health care
decisions shaped by sight, smell, touch, sound, taste as well as
feeling, believing, remembering and knowing?
We anticipate
publishing this volume in paperback with a university press, with the
potential for classroom adoption. Essays from practitioners of all
disciplines are welcome. This volume aims to reach across the fields of
Iberian and global early modern studies, history of science and
medicine, and gender, sexuality and women’s studies.
Please send a 250 to 300-word proposal and CV to Margaret E. Boyle (mboyle2@bowdoin.edu) and Sarah E. Owens (owenss@cofc.edu)
by January 15, 2018. Authors will be notified no later than January
30, 2018. If the proposal is accepted by the press, completed essays
would be expected approximately 6 months after acceptance date.
Sarah
E. Owens. Professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston,
Charleston, S.C. She specializes in the writings of colonial and early
modern Spanish nuns. Her research has taken her to the archives of
Mexico, Spain, Chile, Peru, and the Vatican. In 2009 she published an
award-winning edition of a Spanish nun’s travel account called Journey of Five Capuchin Nuns. Her co-edited second book with Jane Mangan, Women of the Iberian Atlantic
(LSU Press, 2012), won the award for best Collaborative Project from
the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Her latest book, Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
(University of New Mexico Press, 2017), was supported by a Fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a sabbatical from the
College of Charleston.
Margaret
E. Boyle. Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Margaret's teaching and research
spans the literature and culture of early modern Spain and colonial
Latin America, as well as feminist, gender and sexuality studies. She is
the author of Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
(University of Toronto Press, 2014). Her primary interests include
early modern women's literary and cultural history, comedia history and
performance, and practices of early modern health and healing.