HIST 354: Discipline and Pleasure in the Early Modern City (HC)

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Edward Behrend‐Martinez
"Making Sense of the History of Sex and Gender in Early Modern Spain"
2009

Fiona Williamson
"Public and Private Worlds? Social History, Gender and Space"
2009

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