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Reading, writing, and rewriting the prostitute body / Shannon Bell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1994.Description: 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585000999
  • 9780585000992
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading, writing, and rewriting the prostitute body.DDC classification:
  • 306.74/2/09 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ111 .B45 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 71.67
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body -- 2. Reading the Hetairae in Plato's Texts -- 3. The Making of the Modern Prostitute Body -- 4. Writing the Prostitute Body: Feminist Reproductions -- 5. Rewriting the Prostitute Body: Prostitute Perspectives -- 6. Prostitute Performances: Sacred Carnival Theorists of the Female Body -- Conclusion: From Aspasia's Salon to the Sprinkle Salon.
Action note:
  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: Bell shows how the flesh-and-blood female body engaged in sexual interaction for payment has no inherent meaning and is signified differently in different cultures or discourses. The author contends that modernity has produced "the prostitute" as the other within the categorial other: woman. -- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.

1. Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body -- 2. Reading the Hetairae in Plato's Texts -- 3. The Making of the Modern Prostitute Body -- 4. Writing the Prostitute Body: Feminist Reproductions -- 5. Rewriting the Prostitute Body: Prostitute Perspectives -- 6. Prostitute Performances: Sacred Carnival Theorists of the Female Body -- Conclusion: From Aspasia's Salon to the Sprinkle Salon.

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Bell shows how the flesh-and-blood female body engaged in sexual interaction for payment has no inherent meaning and is signified differently in different cultures or discourses. The author contends that modernity has produced "the prostitute" as the other within the categorial other: woman. -- Provided by publisher

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