Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

Name: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body
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ISBN: 9780253208590

ISBN-10: 0253208599

ISBN-13: 9780253208590

Edition: 1994

Authors: Shannon Bell

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In Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body, Shannon Bell recovers the hetaira [courtesan] of ancient Greece as both sophistic philosopher and erotic teacher. Tracing the "constructed" prostitute body through discourse in ancient Greece, modern Europe, contemporary North American and French feminisms, postmodern prostitute feminisms, and North American postmodern prostitute performance art, 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 categorical other: woman.…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Shannon Bell is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.



Acknowledgments



Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body



Reading the Hetairae in Plato's Texts



The Making of the Modern Prostitute Body



Writing the Prostitute Body: Feminist Reproductions



Rewriting the Prostitute Body: Prostitute Perspectives



Prostitute Performances: Sacred Carnival Theorists of the Female Body


Conclusion: From Aspasia's Salon to the Sprinkle Salon


Notes


Bibliography


Index