Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice
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Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice

The Disease that Came to Stay

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  2. English
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Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice

The Disease that Came to Stay

About this book

A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.

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Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780230252929
eBook ISBN
9780230298071

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures, Tables, and Charts
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 A Network of Lovers: Sexuality and Disease Patterns in Early Modern Venice
  9. 2 The Suspected Culprits: Dangerously Beautiful Prostitutes and Debauched Men
  10. 3 Stigma Reinforced: The Problem of Incurable Cases of a Curable Disease
  11. 4 Gender and Institutions: Hospitals and Female Asylums
  12. Conclusion
  13. Afterword
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

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