Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine by Laurinda S. Dixon

Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine

Laurinda S. Dixon

320 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or...

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