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Common Women : Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England.
Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understanding of what it meant to be a woman. This important work...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press, USA,
1996.
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of sexuality.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understanding of what it meant to be a woman. This important work will be of interest to scholars and students of history, women's studies, and the history of sexuality. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (498 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780195352306 0195352300 |