Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville / / Mary Elizabeth Perry.

In this exploration of crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, Mary Elizabeth Perry reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respectability--prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other deviants who provoked the concern of a growin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1990
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION Neither Broken Sword nor Wandering Woman
  • CHAPTER 1 In the Hands of Women
  • CHAPTER 2 Virgins, Martyrs, and the Necessary Evil
  • CHAPTER 3 Perfect Wives and Profane Lovers
  • CHAPTER 4 Walls without Windows
  • CHAPTER 5 Chastity and Danger
  • CHAPTER 6 Sexual Rebels
  • CHAPTER 7 Prostitutes, Penitents, and Brothel Padres
  • CHAPTER 8 Mothers of the Poor
  • CONCLUSION Survivors and Subversives
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index