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Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society

Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society

Pullen, Kirsten

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesTechnical Theater

ISBN10: 0521541026
ISBN13: 9780521541022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 17 2005
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
The categories of whore and actress have overlapped over centuries. Actresses are assumed to be sexually available and promiscuous, and prostitutes are assumed to perform for their clients. Employing historical biographies as well as interviews with contemporary sex workers, this book compares actresses and prostitutes from Nell Gwynne to Mae West. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, Kirsten Pullen offers many new insights to theater historians and scholars of cultural, social and gender studies.

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