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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013.
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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.