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Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women

Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women

Taylor-Jones, Kate
Hipkins, Danielle

Hardcover

Series: Global Cinema

Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 3319646079
ISBN13: 9783319646077
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 16 2017
Pages: 295
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled 'prostitute'. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories, images and narratives surrounding her, and her experiences, circulate transnationally. As this book will explore, the broad term prostitute can cover a variety of experiences and representations that are both repressive and also have the potential to empower women and disrupt cultural expectations. The contributors aim to consider how frequently 19th-century narratives of female prostitution--hence the label 'fallen women'--are still recycled in contemporary visual contexts, and to understand how widespread, and in what contexts, the destigmatization of female sex work is underway on screen.

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