Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque: Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean
ISBN: 9789048538171
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Amsterdam University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, among them convents for reformed prostitutes.

Kuffner Emily :

Emily Kuffner is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University. Her research focuses on literary prostitution in the picaresque genre, gender studies, humoral medicine, and the botanical in literature.


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