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- Title
LOS CUERPOS DEVASTADOS. LAS PACIENTES DE BUBAS EN LOS HOSPITALES REALES DE GRANADA (SIGLOS XVI Y XVII).
- Authors
VALENZUELA CANDELARIO, José
- Abstract
During the early modern period of European history, great pox (or morbus gallicus) was a representation of body mortification and a symbol of physical damage associated with carnal commerce. This article identifies and deciphers the physical and cultural signs of venereal disease in the bodies of women attended in the Royal Hospitals of the city of Granada during the 16th and 17th centuries. It reveals the meanings bound within bodily indicators and symbolisms, particularly those associated with sex-gender differences. The semantics of bodies with chancres exhibit the patriarchal social order and sexual extortion of women. We propose a sex-gender taxonomy of the attended women (and female patients with chancres in general).
- Subjects
MORTIFICATION; ASCETICISM; SELF-denial; SEXUALLY transmitted diseases; GENDER differences (Psychology); GENDER differences (Sociology)
- Publication
Studia Histórica: Historia Moderna, 2022, Vol 44, Issue 1, p275
- ISSN
0213-2079
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14201/shhmo2022441275309