The evolution of women's asylums since 1500 : from refuges for ex-prostitutes to shelters for battered women / Sherrill Cohen.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Catholic Europe witnessed the growth of new institutions designed to house repentant prostitutes and girls and women at risk of becoming prostitutes. This little-known surge in institution building arose out of the Catholic reform movement and the Counter R...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | Studies in the history of sexuality.
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HV1448.I8 C65 1992 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |