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Title: Common Women
Author : Ruth Mazo Karras
Release Date : January 23, 1998
Genre: Europe,Books,History,Nonfiction,Social Science,
Pages : * pages
Size : 2259 KB

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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.