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Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine
Laurinda Dixon
This book analyses seventeenth century Dutch paintings of sick women to provide evidence for its thesis that paintings of lovesick maidens were part of a rhetoric of domesticity designed to convince assertive, recently urbanized Dutch women that their place was in the home. ... Medieval medicine faced a dilemma, since the value the church placed on chastity made it difficult to advocate for sexual intercourse “as a curative measure.
Approximate Word count = 406 Approximate Pages = 1.6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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