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Cultures of charity : women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy /

Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women's shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Terpstra, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Colección:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Showing the Poor a Good Time: Gender, Class, and Charitable Cultures
  • Two Cultures of Charity
  • "Good Mothers of the Family"
  • 2. Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich: Women's Poverty and Charitable Institutions
  • The Turning Wheel: Charitable Institutions and Life Cycle Poverty
  • The Critical Decade
  • Nights and Days at the Opera
  • 3. Tightening Control: The Narrowing Politics of Charity
  • Making It Work
  • People versus Patricians: Civil Society and Controlling Charity
  • 4. Meeting the Bottom Line: Alms, Taxes, Work, and Legacies
  • Begging for Beggars: Keeping the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti Afloat
  • Taxation by Other Means
  • Making a Workhouse
  • Deeper in Debt and Richer all the Time: Building a Legacy
  • 5. The Wheel Keeps Turning: Moving Beyond the Opera
  • Enclosing the Circle: Shelters and the Reform of Poor Women
  • Credit Where Credit Was Due: Investing in Marriage
  • Beyond Charity: Mutual Assistance and the Working Poor.
  • Note continued: 6. Baroque Piety and the Qualita of Mercy
  • Bringing Discipline to Practical Charity
  • The Aesthetics of Poverty and the Qualita of Mercy.