Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 5581
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Karras , Ruth Mazo.
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  • Title: Desire, Descendants, and Dominance: Slavery, the Exchange of Women, and Masculine Power [discusses men's purchase of control over women's sexuality in the cases of female slaves and of wives].
  • Source: The Work of Work: Servitude, Slavery, and Labor in Medieval England.  Edited by Allen J. Frantzen and Douglas Moffat.  Cruithne Press, 1994.  Pages 16 - 29.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Bride Price Exchange of Women Gender Sexuality Slaves Wives
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles;Scandinavia
  • Century: General
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  • Author's Affiliation: Temple University
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  • Year of Publication: 1994.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1873448031