| Description: | The course analyses the evolution of the concepts of sexuality and the body in the Western tradition, especially focusing on women's social conditions and on the female archetypes. Prostitution as a topic is the intersection point among gender and class assumptions, sexual practices, religious and legal systems, moral views and lifestyles, myth and history. Thus studying prostitution will also mean touching upon all these areas, and their development through the long rise of modern Western society - from prehistoric cultures, through classical Greek and Roman traditions, Christian Middle Ages, up to the Italian Renaissance world. |