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This book explores how notions of deviancy and social control are dramatized in the novels of the late nineteenth-century Spanish realist author Benito Pérez Galdós. Galdós's treatment of prostitutes, alcoholics, beggars and vagrants is studied within the context of the socio-cultural and medical debates circulating during the period. Drawing on Foucault's very specific conceptualisation of the idea of control through discourses, the book analyses how Galdós's novels interacted with contemporary debates on poverty and deviancy - notably, discourses on hygiene, domesticity and philanthropy. It is proposed that Galdós's view of marginal social groups was much more open-minded, shrewd and liberal than the often inflexible pronouncements made by contemporary professional voices.
Alcoholism in literature. --- Deviant behavior in literature. --- Poverty in literature. --- Prostitutes in literature. --- Social control in literature. --- Prostitution in literature --- Pérez Galdós, Benito, --- Galdós, Benito Pérez, --- Péres Galdós, Benito, --- Pérez Galdós, B. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Prostitution in literature.
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Malgré le bavardage entourant la "question" de la prostitution, il semblerait que méditer la nature de la putain n'ait jamais suscité l'intérêt. Depuis toujours, ce n'est pas des putains que l'on parle, mais du "problème" qu'elles suscitent. Et s'il n'y avait ni "question" ni "problème" ? S'il n'y avait que des êtres, dont la particularité est de perturber les simples idées de "question" ou de "problème" ? Chaque fois qu'une putain entre dans un lieu, ce sont en réalité toutes les questions et tous les problèmes qui se trouvent affolés. Qu'est-ce que l'art ? Qu'est-ce que l'argent ? Qu'est-ce que le travail ? Qu'est-ce que la police ? Qu'est-ce qu'un sujet ? Au contact avec les putains, les interrogations paraissant les plus légitimes se trouvent soudain compliquées, et les réponses usuelles ridiculisées. Parce que les putains sont une figure : la figure de la vérité et de ce qui, en elle, est insupportable aux forces de l'ordre, aux tartufes et aux gouvernements. Oui, les putains sont le visage même de la métaphysique
Prostitution --- Prostitution in literature --- Prostitutes in literature --- Prostitution dans la littérature --- Prostituées dans la littérature --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Prostitutes in literature. --- Prostitution dans la littérature --- Prostituées dans la littérature --- Philosophy. --- Prostitution - Philosophy
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This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from innocence to sex-work and beyond. This crucial angle allows the author to paint a picture of gender identity, sexuality, and desire that is at once unitary and multi-layered, and that comes to illuminate some of the major themes in the construction of Chinese modernity.
Prostitution --- Prostitutes --- Prostitutes in literature --- Prostitution in literature --- Call girls --- Female prostitutes --- Girls, Call --- Harlots --- Hookers (Prostitutes) --- Hustlers (Prostitutes) --- Street prostitutes --- Streetwalkers --- Strumpets --- Tarts (Prostitutes) --- Trollops (Prostitutes) --- Whores (Prostitutes) --- Women prostitutes --- Sex workers --- History.
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The figure of the Chinese sex worker-who provokes both disdain and desire-has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mobility and mobilization of the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, illuminating the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures.Transpacific Attachments examines shifting depictions of Chinese sex workers in popular media-from literature to film to new media-that have circulated within the United States, China, and Sinophone communities from the early twentieth century to the present. Wong explores Asian American writers' articulation of transnational belonging; early Hollywood's depiction of Chinese women as parasitic prostitutes and Chinese cinema's reframing the figure as a call for reform; Cold War-era use of prostitute and courtesan metaphors to question nationalist narratives and heteronormativity; and images of immigrant brides against the backdrop of neoliberalism and the flows of transnational capital. She focuses on the transpacific networks that reconfigure Chineseness, complicating a diasporic framework of cultural authenticity. While imaginations of a global community have long been mobilized through romantic, erotic, and gendered representations, Wong stresses the significant role sex work plays in the constant restructuring of social relations. "Chineseness," the figure of the sex worker shows, is an affective product as much as an ethnic or cultural signifier.
Prostitutes in motion pictures. --- Prostitutes in literature. --- Chinese in motion pictures. --- Chinese in literature. --- National characteristics, Chinese. --- Chinese national characteristics --- Motion pictures --- Prostitution in literature --- S11/0743 --- S16/0195 --- China: Social sciences--Prostitution --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies
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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.
Art and literature --- Art, French --- French fiction --- Prostitutes in art --- Prostitutes in literature --- Prostitution in literature --- Art, Modern --- History --- History and criticism --- Prostitutes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Prostitution in art.
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English literature --- English literature --- Moral conditions in literature. --- Prostitutes in literature. --- Prostitution in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- Unmarried mothers in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- History
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Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied–Italian encounter. The arrival of the Allies’ global forces in an Italy torn by civil war brought together populations that had long mythologized one another, yet “liberation” did not prove to be the happy ending touted by official rhetoric. Instead of a “honeymoon,” the Allied–Italian encounter in cities such as Naples and Rome appeared to be a lurid affair, where the black market reigned supreme and prostitution was the norm. Informed by the historical context as well as by their respective traditions, these texts become more than mirrors of the encounter or generic allegories. Instead, they are sites in which to explore repressed traumas that inform how the occupation unfolded and is remembered, including the Holocaust, the American Civil War, and European colonialism, as well as individual traumatic events like the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine and the mass civilian rape near Rome by colonial soldiers
World War, 1939-1945 --- Literature and the war. --- Italy --- History --- Allied occupation of Italy. --- Naples in literature. --- Rome in literature. --- World War II. --- military occupation. --- prostitution in literature. --- the Holocaust in literature.
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In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literary and historical sources to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work.Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself. In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution-among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives-Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."
Prostitutie in de literatuur --- Prostitution dans la littérature --- Prostitution in literature --- Fiction --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- Prostitution in literature. --- Prostitution --- English literature --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- History --- History and criticism. --- Prostitutes in literature. --- 18th century --- History and criticism --- Sex work --- Literature --- Book --- Imaging
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English literature --- Politics and literature --- Pornography --- Prostitutes in literature. --- Prostitution in literature. --- Prostitution --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Prostitutes in literature --- Prostitution in literature --- Sex in literature --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Erotica --- History and criticism --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Sex work --- Sex industry
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This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade, that over the novel, and that over prostitution--Mudge contextualizes the growing literary need to separate good fiction from bad and argues that that process was of crucial importance to the emergence of a new, middle-class state. Looking closely at sermons, medical manuals, periodical essays, and political tract
English fiction --- Prostitutes in literature. --- Erotic stories, English --- Pornography --- Feminist literary criticism. --- Women in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist criticism --- Literature, Immoral --- Porn --- Porno --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Erotica --- Prostitution in literature --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sexology --- Fiction --- History --- Great Britain --- Prostitution in literature. --- Prostitutes in literature --- Feminist literary criticism --- Women in literature --- Sex in literature --- History and criticism --- Sex industry --- Literature --- Sex work --- Book --- Eroticism