TY - BOOK ID - 82272715 TI - Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France PY - 1997 SN - 0822319470 9780822319474 PB - Durham Duke university press DB - UniCat KW - Art and literature KW - Art, French KW - French fiction KW - Prostitutes in art KW - Prostitutes in literature KW - Prostitution in literature KW - Art, Modern KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Prostitutes in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Prostitution in art. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:82272715 AB - Figures of Ill Repute Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even present in the novels and paintings of the time. This book discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. ER -