The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Includes Companion Website [With CDROM]

by Bonnie Gordon

Book Overview

Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. Of a different world than common prostitutes, courtesans deal in artistic and intellectual pleasures in ways
that are wholly interdependent with their commerce in sex. In pre-colonial India, courtesans cultivated a wide variety of artistic skills, including magic, music,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195170296
• ISBN13: 9780195170290
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"