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Common Women - Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Paperback, Revised)
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Common Women - Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality
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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.
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