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The evolution of women's asylums since 1500 : from refuges for ex-prostitutes to shelters for battered women / Sherrill Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of sexualityPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195051645
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.83/85/0945 20
LOC classification:
  • HV1448.I8 C65 1992
Contents:
The wife, the nun, and the prostitute : gender ideology in medieval and early modern Europe -- Prostitution and the Tuscan refuges -- Anomalous women and girls in the Tuscan refuges -- "At work and recreation together" : life inside the women's refuges of Tuscany -- The Tuscan refuges as social institutions -- The adaptation of an institutional model : from the Monastero delle Convertite to the Mary Magdalene Project -- Social legacies of the early modern women's asylums.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HV1448.I8C65 1992 1 Available 33710000682927

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index.

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The wife, the nun, and the prostitute : gender ideology in medieval and early modern Europe -- Prostitution and the Tuscan refuges -- Anomalous women and girls in the Tuscan refuges -- "At work and recreation together" : life inside the women's refuges of Tuscany -- The Tuscan refuges as social institutions -- The adaptation of an institutional model : from the Monastero delle Convertite to the Mary Magdalene Project -- Social legacies of the early modern women's asylums.