Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern Venice the disease that came to stay / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： McGough, Laura J., 1964-
• 其他題名：
  • Early modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
• 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Early modern history : society and culture
• 主題： Syphilis--Italy--Venice--History--16th century. , Syphilis--Italy--Venice--History--17th century. , Sex--Italy--Venice--History--16th century. , Sex--Italy--Venice--History--17th century. , Sex role--Italy--Venice--History--16th century. , Sex role--Italy--Venice--History--17th century. , Syphilis--history--France. , Syphilis--history--Italy. , History, Early Modern 1451-1600--France. , History, Early Modern 1451-1600--Italy. , History, Modern 1601---France. , History, Modern 1601---Italy. , Sexual Behavior--history--France. , Sexual Behavior--history--Italy. , Syphilis--epidemiology--France. , Syphilis--epidemiology--Italy. , Sex--Italy--Venice--History--16th century. , Sex--Italy--Venice--History--17th century. , Sex role--Italy--Venice--History--16th century. , Sex role--Italy--Venice--History--17th century. , Syphilis--Italy--Venice--History--16th century. , Syphilis--Italy--Venice--History--17th century. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230298071 (electronic bk.) 、 0230298079 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-198) and index. A network of lovers : sexuality and disease patterns in early modern Venice -- The suspected culprits : dangerously beautiful prostitutes and debauched men -- Stigma reinforced : the problem of incurable cases of a curable disease -- Gender and institutions : hospitals and female asylums.
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• 摘要註: This provocative book questions the assumption that syphilis (the 'French disease') became widespread in Venice because of its legendary courtesans. Using new evidence, Laura McGough reconstructs the city's sexual networks, revealing a society where sexual relations linked people of different classes, neighbourhoods and occupations. Venice's restrictive marriage customs, its role as a centre of migration, and fears of male sexual impotence brought about a sexual culture that fostered the spread of disease. To prevent the spread of disease, Venetian authorities focused on a single target: beautiful young women and girls, who were encouraged to enter walled asylums to protect their chastity. Both medical authorities and the public believed this 'routine disease' could be treated and cured: only cases that did not respond to treatment aroused suspicions that the illness was caused by witchcraft. Gender, Sexuality and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice thereby explores the medical, social, and cultural transitions that occur as a disease comes to be regarded as routine and widespread.
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