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- Title
Bridewells, Beterhuizen, and the Ozpizio: Making Men during the Age of Reason.
- Authors
Dennis, Jeffery P.
- Abstract
Three facilities for housing delinquent and at-risk youth—Bridewells in England, Beterhuizen in the Netherlands, and the Hospice of St. Michael in Italy—are analyzed as sites for producing and policing middle-class masculinity during the eighteenth century. Three cardinal sins of the Enlightenment "gentlemen" are illustrated: idleness, refusing marriage, and refusing homosocial comrades. The result was a policing of same-sex behavior and placement in the homoerotic underground.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; MARRIAGE; SACRAMENTS; MIDDLE class; SAME-sex divorce
- Publication
Journal of the History of Childhood & Youth, 2024, Vol 17, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
1939-6724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hcy.2024.a916838