Common Women

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Common Women is written by Ruth Mazo Karras and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190284226 (ISBN 10) and 9780190284220 (ISBN 13).

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.