In this Book
- Tolerance, regulation and rescue: Dishonoured women and abandoned children in Italy, 1300–1800
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Manchester University Press
summary
Looking at Catholic charity and social policy in past times, this book focuses on 'unrespectable' women and children in Italy, and their treatment at the hands of charities and the law. It looks at prostitutes and women engaged in sexual relationships outside formal marriage, and foundlings, many of whom were abandoned because they were born out of wedlock. A wide-ranging synoptic survey, this study considers the practical complications and consequences of communities' decisions to accommodate and regulate activities considered bad but irrepressible: of the belief that licensed prostitution and controlled abandonment could be used to avert greater evils, from sodomy and adultery to infanticide and abortion. Accessibly written, Tolerance, regulation and rescue discusses social problems which are still the subject of debate, and should appeal not only to academics and students, but also to general readers.
Table of Contents
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- Table of contents
- pp. vi-vii
- List of abbreviations
- pp. x-xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-9
- 2 Prostitution, sin and the law
- pp. 29-47
- 4 Extenuation and rescue
- pp. 67-85
- 5 Penitent sinners
- pp. 86-105
- 6 Women and girls in danger
- pp. 106-124
- 7 Foundlings and orphans: an introduction
- pp. 125-139
- 10 Fostering and adoption
- pp. 177-191
- 11 Foundlings and society
- pp. 192-209
- Conclusion
- pp. 210-216
- Bibliography
- pp. 217-236
Additional Information
ISBN
9781526100207
Related ISBN(s)
9781784991296
MARC Record
OCLC
980757982
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-07
Language
English
Open Access
No