Erotic Exchanges : The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris /
In Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. In this demimonde, these dames entretenues exchanged sex, company, and sometimes even love for being "kept." Most of th...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The police and the demimonde
- Leaving home
- Being sold into the demimonde
- Madams and their networks
- Contracts and elite prostitution as work
- Male experiences of galanterie
- Sexual capital and the private lives of mistresses.