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The last example of specifically female occupation examined in this chapter is prostitution, a very singular profession that can be seen as the worst possible form of exploitation but also a job like any other job that uses the female body as a resource. During the early modern times, it was the object of increased attention by the political and religious powers and of contradictory policies in Catholic and Protestant Europe.
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Bellavitis, A. (2018). Bodies as Resources. In: Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3_11
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