Moving Beyond Sex: Prostitutes, Migration and Knowledge in Late-Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities
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2021-10-10
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McDonough, Susan; Moving Beyond Sex: Prostitutes, Migration and Knowledge in Late-Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities; Gender & History, 10 October, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12574
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: McDonough, Susan; Moving Beyond Sex: Prostitutes, Migration and Knowledge in Late-Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities; Gender & History, 10 October, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12574, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12574. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of SelfArchived Versions.
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: McDonough, Susan; Moving Beyond Sex: Prostitutes, Migration and Knowledge in Late-Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities; Gender & History, 10 October, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12574, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12574. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of SelfArchived Versions.
Access to this item will begin on 2023-10-10
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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.