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S'està carregant… Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval Englandde Ruth Mazo Karras
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A pretty definitive account of prostitution in medieval England, Karras does a good job of articulating the medieval concept of prostitution—where what made you a 'whore' was not so much that you took money in return for sex, but the very fact that you were (seen as) sexually available—while treading a careful path between seeing these women as solely victims of the society in which they lived, and seeing them as in control of their own destiny. There were one or two small points to nitpick at—while I am sure that a man's sexual activities were not as overwhelmingly defining of their identities as women's were, I don't think that their behaviour was entirely irrelevant either. Despite those quibbles, this is I think the book to turn to if you have an interest in the subject. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)306.740942Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Relations between the sexes, sexualities, love Sex work Biography And History EuropeLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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