Beattie’s work looks at the classification of women for social and legal purposes with respect to marriage status--maid, wife or widow--and the consequences for those who did not fit neatly into those categories, as well as the intersectionality of gender categories with social status and age.
prostitutes
Like courtesans, prostitutes sometimes had a reputation for turning to other women for love and recreational sex as a change from “work.”
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