Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

by Elena Zambelli

Focusing on Italy, this book discusses how women negotiate sexuality and social status in a Western sexscape constituted by multifaceted articulations of women's sexuality, commodities and modernity. Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women's processes of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800736851
• ISBN13: 9781800736856
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"