1. Premise: gender, honor and shame
   
2. Religion and gender
   
3. Women's ritual-religious behavior in Southern Europe
   
4. The "work of pain"
   
5. The Mother of Sorrow
   
6. Conclusion
   
7. Endnotes
   
8. References
   
9. Sources
   

Niccolò dell'Arca, Compianto del Cristo morto
(mourning of the dead Christ). 1463.