Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kirsten PullenTheme:Interdisciplinary Studies/Women's StudiesPublish date:2/17/2005Pages:228
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521541022ISBN-10:0521541026UPC:9780521541022Book Category:Social Science, Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, TheaterBook Topic:Stagecraft & ScenographySize:8.96 x 6.12 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.372Product ID:SCR9XH4DY2
The categories of "whore" and "actress" have overlapped over centuries. Actresses are assumed to be sexually available and promiscuous, and prostitutes are assumed to perform for their clients. Employing historical biographies as well as interviews with contemporary sex workers, this book compares actresses and prostitutes from Nell Gwynne to Mae West. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, Kirsten Pullen offers many new insights to theater historians and scholars of cultural, social and gender studies.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521541022ISBN-10:0521541026UPC:9780521541022Book Category:Social Science, Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, TheaterBook Topic:Stagecraft & ScenographySize:8.96 x 6.12 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.372Product ID:SCR9XH4DY2
Pullen, Kirsten: - Kirsten Pullen is Assistant Professor of Performance and New Media Studies at the University of Calgary.
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