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The Business of Pleasure
A History of Paid Sex in the Heart of Europe
2024 || Paperback || Elwin Hofman e.a. || Leuven University Press
In 2022, the Belgian parliament made a landmark decision by approving the decriminalisation of sex work. This move positioned the small nation as the first country in Europe – and the second globally – to abandon the hypocrisy of tolerance. Yet this was not the first time paid sex in Belgium gained international notoriety. The bathhouses of the fifteenth-century ‘frows of Flanders’ were well-known throughout Europe. In the nineteenth century, Belgium faced international outrage as the...
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Portraits and Poses
Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe
2022 || Paperback || Beatrijs Vanacker e.a. || Leuven University Press
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explore...