Reading, writing, and rewriting the prostitute body / Shannon Bell.
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: woma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1994]
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253311667 9780253311665 0253208599 9780253208590 |