What Do We Mean by "Women and Power"?

Kelleher, Marie A.

doi:10.17077/1536-8742.2042

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Who Counts In the Medieval Mediterranean?1

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“…If the definition expands to include people acting 'with the intention of affecting someone else', we can include women, Jewish, Christian and Muslim, enslaved and free, 'honest woman' and prostitutes in that definition of power. 37 It is worth considering what kind of power might prostitutes have exercised, because failing to ask such a question further marginalises women who are frequently assumed by scholars to be inconsequential.…”

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Moving Beyond Sex: Prostitutes, Migration and Knowledge in Late‐Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities

McDonough¹

2021

Gender & History

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Based in archival research from Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia and Palermo, this article argues for a reconsideration of the gendering of the medieval Mediterranean. It focuses on prostitutes and their movement to and from Mediterranean port cities and queries how they used the institutions of the law courts and the notariat to integrate themselves into the everyday workings of the city. The article concludes with a call to rethink whose movement counts in the medieval Mediterranean when scholars think of the region as a whole.

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