Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body

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.

Author: Shannon Bell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/22/1994
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.30w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780253208590

About the Author

SHANNON BELL teaches classical political theory, feminist theory, and legal theory in the Department of Political Science at York University.