Author: Publisher: Jessie Valetta
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Author: Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives
Author: Debra A. MeyersPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253109743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to the New World, where gender relations and family formations were largely unhampered by the unsettling political and religious climate of England. In Maryland, English Arminian Catholics, Particular Baptists, Presbyterians, Puritans, Quakers, and Roman Catholics lived and worked together for most of the 17th century. By closely examining thousands of wills and other personal documents, as well as early Maryland's material culture, this transatlantic study depicts women's place in society and the ways religious values and social arrangements shaped their lives. Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives takes a revisionist approach to the study of women and religion in colonial Maryland and adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural importance of religion in early America.
Common Women
Author: Ruth Mazo KarrasPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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.
Spectres of Confusion
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300855665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland
Author: Maryland. Court of AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Maryland Reports
Author: Maryland. Court of AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
SUPREME COURT APPELLATE DIVISION - FIRST DEPARTMENT
Author: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Maryland
Author: Maryland. Court of AppealsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Common Women : Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England
Author: Ruth Mazo Karras Associate Professor of History Temple UniversityPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198022794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"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 streetwalkers, 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. Common Women crosses the boundary from social to cultural history by asking not only about the experiences of prostitutes but also about the meaning of prostitution in medieval culture. The teachings of the church attributed both lust and greed, in generous measure, to women as a group. Stories of repentant whores were popular among medieval preachers and writers because prostitutes were the epitome of feminine sin. 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.
Dogeaters
Author: Jessica HagedornPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143138162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“An original, raw, and wild novel that has held its power and demands to be read.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and Winner of the American Book Award Jessica Hagedorn is the recipient of The Before Columbus Foundation’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award A classic and influential story centered on the cultural and political stakes of life in Marcos-era Philippines One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines’ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters—including movie stars and waiters, a young junkie and the richest man in the Philippines—becomes ensnared in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. At the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.