Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque : Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean /

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This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes. Meanwhile, conduct manuals established...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kuffner, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Architecture in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Picaresque literature, Spanish > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : fictions of containment
  • Prostitution in the early modern Spanish Mediterranean
  • Public space and public women
  • Coaches of deception: the predatory pícara
  • Prostitutes in the window
  • The doors of paradise.

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