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Il buon nome delle donne. Matrimonio, professione e reputazione nella Roma dell’Ottocento

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  • Ginevra Diletta Tonini Masella
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/SDD-9610

Published 2011-07-12

Keywords

  • linguaggio,
  • reputazione,
  • donne sole,
  • modelle,
  • prostitute,
  • language,
  • reputation,
  • unmarried women,
  • models
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How to Cite

Tonini Masella, G. D. (2011). Il buon nome delle donne. Matrimonio, professione e reputazione nella Roma dell’Ottocento. Storia Delle Donne, 6(7), 139–155. https://doi.org/10.13128/SDD-9610
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Abstract

This work is based on the trial documents of the Vicar and the Governor Courts (XVIII-XIX centuries). It is focused on the leading role of reputation in the lives of unmarried and atypical working women during the First Roman Republic (1798-1799). Referring to the recent studies on marriage, the attention is focused on both language and nomenclature used in trial documents to describe women. Moreover, it is underlined the importance of a bad reputation on the Criminal Court’s judgement in actions for seduction of unmarried women. Models earned by showing their naked bodies: a particular attention is reserved then to the role of their job as well as their marital status in both construction and judgement of their reputation.
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