Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In <I>Profit and Passion, </I>Nicole von Germeten offers a new history of the women who carried and resisted these labels of ill repute. The elusive, ever-changing terminology for prosecuted women voiced by kings, jurists, magistrates, inquisitors, and bishops, as well as disgruntled husbands and neighbors, foreshadows the increasing regulation,...
