num_pages: 248
description: "I found this a fascinating 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 woman.
language: English
title: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body
titlecomplete: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting the Prostitute Body
genres: Feminism, Sex Work, Sexuality
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Indiana University Press