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Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

Paperback

General SociologySexualityWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253208599
ISBN13: 9780253208590
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jun 22 1994
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

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.

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