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Common Women : Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

Common Women : Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England Paperback - 1998

by Ruth Mazo Karras

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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Common Women : Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England
  • Author Ruth Mazo Karras
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0195124987I4N00
  • ISBN 9780195124989 / 0195124987
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.46 x 0.54 in (22.86 x 16.41 x 1.37 cm)
  • Reading level 1600
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.74

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This chapter approaches medieval understandings of feminine sexuality by looking at what different jurisdictions thought they were regulating when they legislated about whoredom, and how and why they attempted to control it.

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"Common women" in medieval England were prostitutes, whose distinguishing feature was not that they took money for sex but that they belonged to all men in common. Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England tells the stories of these women's lives: their entrance into the trade because of poor job and marriage prospects or because of seduction or rape; their experiences as street-walkers, brothel workers or the medieval equivalent of call girls; their customers, from poor apprentices to priests to wealthy foreign merchants; and their relations with those among whom they lived. 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.