Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

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Author/Contributor(s): Bell, Shannon
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date: 06/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
I found this a fascinating book: wide-ranging, readable. --Alison Jaggar

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.