Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

by Shannon Bell

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253208599
• ISBN13: 9780253208590
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher