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Book The History of Prostitution   Illustrated Edition

Download or read book The History of Prostitution Illustrated Edition written by William Wallace Sangar and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, The History of Prostitution is considered one of the most detailed, sympathetic, and objective studies of prostitution in New York City.* Just as accessible and informative for today's readers as it would have been when first published, the study is one of the great works of American social research and continues to be widely read throughout the world.* This meticulous edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images of classic works of art carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

Book The Oldest Profession

Download or read book The Oldest Profession written by Hilary Evans and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selling Sex in the City  A Global History of Prostitution  1600s 2000s

Download or read book Selling Sex in the City A Global History of Prostitution 1600s 2000s written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.

Book Prostitution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vern L. Bullough
  • Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Prostitution written by Vern L. Bullough and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1978 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prostitution and Sex Work

Download or read book Prostitution and Sex Work written by Melissa Hope Ditmore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating overview of prostitution and sex work in the United States, from the Colonial era to today, examines the issue as it affects men, women, and transgender individuals of all races and classes. Prostitution and Sex Work is the first book since 1921 to offer a historic overview of this controversial topic—and what our views on it say about American society. Exploring key people, places, and events, the guide includes descriptions of the myriad variations of the sale of sex and of the venues where prostitution occurs, as well as recurring themes such as panics about sexually transmitted diseases and the ever-present issue of violence in the sex trade. After reviewing the history of prostitution and sex work over the past 400 years, the book offers detailed information about the legal context of prostitution in America during the last century. It focuses particularly on the period since prostitution was criminalized during a panic over "white slavery" in the early 20th century, drawing parallels with current "sex trafficking" topics. An appendix of materials produced by sex workers is especially informative for those wishing to truly understand both sides of the issue.

Book A History of Prostitution  Etc   Revised and Illustrated Limited Edition

Download or read book A History of Prostitution Etc Revised and Illustrated Limited Edition written by George Ryley SCOTT and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Prostitution from Antiquity to the Present Day

Download or read book A History of Prostitution from Antiquity to the Present Day written by George Ryley Scott and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soiled Doves

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  • Author : Anne Seagraves
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780961908843
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Soiled Doves written by Anne Seagraves and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West -- Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.

Book Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai

Download or read book Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai written by Christian Henriot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henriot portrays the sex trade in Shanghai, from the life of the courtesan to street prostitution.

Book Love for Sale

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nils Johan Ringdal
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 1555848087
  • Pages : 613 pages

Download or read book Love for Sale written by Nils Johan Ringdal and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] enlightening and entertaining . . . survey of the world’s oldest profession” from the Whore of Babylon to the modern sex-worker movement (Kirkus Reviews). From Eve and Lilith to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been both a target of scorn and a catalyst for social change. In Love for Sale, cultural historian Nils Johan Ringdal delivers an authoritative and engaging history of this most maligned, yet globally ubiquitous, form of human commerce. Beginning with the epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament, and ancient cultures from Asia to the Mediterranean, Ringdal considers the varying way societies have dealt with and thought about prostitutes through history. He discusses how they were included in the priestess class in ancient Greece and Rome; how the rise of the courtesan in nineteenth-century Europe shaped literature, fashion, the arts, and modern sensibilities. He uncovers the first manuals on the art of sex and seduction, the British Empire’s campaigns against prostitution in India, and stories of the Japanese “comfort women” who served the armies in the Pacific theater of World War II. Ringdal closes with the rise of the sex-workers’ rights movement and ‘sex-positive” feminism, and a realistic look at the true risks and rewards of prostitution in the present day. Recalling Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae with its broad sweep across centuries and continents, Love for Sale “uses [its] subject as a springboard for exploring the ever-changing notions of love, sexual identity, morality and gender among various cultures” (Nan Goldberg, Newark Sunday Star-Ledger).

Book Marked Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell Campbell
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2006-04-05
  • ISBN : 029921253X
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Marked Women written by Russell Campbell and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman. So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, and Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for Monster. This engaging and generously illustrated study explores the depiction of female prostitute characters and prostitution in world cinema, from the silent era to the present-day industry. From the woman with control over her own destiny to the woman who cannot get away from her pimp, Russell Campbell shows the diverse representations of prostitutes in film. Marked Women classifies fifteen recurrent character types and three common narratives, many of them with their roots in male fantasy. The “Happy Hooker,” for example, is the liberated woman whose only goal is to give as much pleasure as she receives, while the “Avenger,” a nightmare of the male imagination, represents the threat of women taking retribution for all the oppression they have suffered at the hands of men. The “Love Story,” a common narrative, represents the prostitute as both heroine and anti-heroine, while “Condemned to Death” allows men to manifest, in imagination only, their hostility toward women by killing off the troubled prostitute in an act of cathartic violence. The figure of the woman whose body is available at a price has fascinated and intrigued filmmakers and filmgoers since the very beginning of cinema, but the manner of representation has also been highly conflicted and fiercely contested. Campbell explores the cinematic prostitute as a figure shaped by both reactionary thought and feminist challenges to the norm, demonstrating how the film industry itself is split by fascinating contradictions.

Book Harlots  Whores   Hackabouts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Lister
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2021-10-12
  • ISBN : 0500252440
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Harlots Whores Hackabouts written by Kate Lister and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by one of the most original contemporary thinkers on the subject, this book is an enlightening illustrated cultural history of the sex trade that puts sex workers center stage, revealing how they have lived and worked all around the globe. The history of selling sex is a hidden one—and too often its practitioners are pushed to the margins of history. This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the eyes of sex workers, from medieval streets to Wild West saloons, and from brothels to state bedrooms. These enthralling tales are brought to life by Whores of Yore creator Kate Lister’s witty and authoritative text, and illuminated by a rich archive of photographs, artworks, and objects offering insight into sex workers’ lives, challenging assumptions about this age-old trade. Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts’ chapters are structured thematically in a broadly chronological order, each one introducing a lively cast of complex and entertaining characters operating in an array of different periods, locations, and settings. In ancient Mesopotamia, the harlot Shamhat was powerful and respected, able to civilize the wild man Enkidu through her charms. In medieval London, Elizabeth Moryng serviced religious clergy under the guise of an embroidery business, though she was eventually jailed for being a prolific panderer and bawd. In the hedonistic floating world of Edo, Japan, Kabuki actresses and geishas entertained and pleasured their patrons. Lister’s engaging and illuminating tales invite readers to look, listen, and reconsider everything they thought they knew about the world’s oldest profession. Together, these captivating tales of sex workers from around the world and throughout history provide a powerful context to contemporary debates about sexuality and the empowerment of women.

Book Whores in History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nickie Roberts
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Whores in History written by Nickie Roberts and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberts' vivid, challenging, and impressively researched defense of the unrepentant whore, whom she regards as the most maligned woman in history, tells the story of the prostitute with hundreds of anecdotes of bawdy-house and brothel life. Her arguments will engage male "experts" and feminist "sisters" alike. Illustrations.

Book Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West  1887 1920

Download or read book Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West 1887 1920 written by Kazuhiro Oharazeki and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Combining very personal accounts with never before examined Japanese sources, historian Kazuhiro Oharazeki traces these women’s transnational journeys from their origins in Japan to their arrival in Pacific Coast cities. He analyzes their responses to the oppression they faced from pimps and customers, as well as the opposition they faced from American social reformers and Japanese American community leaders. Despite their difficult circumstances, Oharazeki finds, some women were able to parlay their experience into better jobs and lives in America. Though that wasn’t always the case, their mere presence here nonetheless paved the way for other Japanese women to come to America and enter the workforce in more acceptable ways. By focusing on this “invisible” underground economy, Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West sheds new light on Japanese American immigration and labor histories and opens a fascinating window into the development of the American West.

Book The History of Prostitution

    Book Details:
  • Author : William W. Sanger
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-08-13
  • ISBN : 3752428309
  • Pages : 658 pages

Download or read book The History of Prostitution written by William W. Sanger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The History of Prostitution by William W. Sanger

Book City of Eros

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy J. Gilfoyle
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780393311082
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book City of Eros written by Timothy J. Gilfoyle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.

Book Selling Sex

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raelene Frances
  • Publisher : UNSW Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780868409016
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Selling Sex written by Raelene Frances and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a history of prostitution in Australia from before European colonisation, and situates this history within an international context of labour migration and policy formation. This work draws on archival research and interviews to chart the ways in which prostitution contributed to women's economic survival and to colonisation.