Sex and gender in historical perspective / edited by Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero ; translated by Margaret A. Gallucci with Mary M. Gallucci and Carole C. Gallucci.

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1990], ©1990.

xxii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Menstruum quasi monstruum" : monstrous births and menstrual taboo in the sixteenth century / Ottavia Niccoli -- New and the old : the spread of syphilis (1494-1530) / Anna Foa -- Honor regained : women in the Casa del Soccorso di San Paolo in sixteenth-century Bologna / Lucia Ferrante -- Female honor and the social control of reproduction in Piedmont between 1600-1800 / Sandra Cavallo and Simona Cerutti -- Spirit of fornication : virtue of the soul and virtue of the body in Friuli, 1600-1800 / Luisa Accati -- One saint less : the story of Angela Mellini, a Bolognese seamstress (1667-17[?]) / Luisa Ciammitti -- Mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, and sisters-in-law at the beginning of the twentieth century in P. of Friuli / Flaviana Zanolla -- Women in the factory : women's networks and social life in America (1900-1915) / Giulia Calvi