Whores Harlots and Wanton Women
Author | : Petrina Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
General & world history.
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Author | : Petrina Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
General & world history.
Author | : Annie Harrower-Gray |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473834708 |
Rediscover Scottish history through the eyes of its most unique and outspoken women in this volume of entertaining tales from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. Annie Harrower-Gray introduces readers to three centuries of rebellious, innovative, and downright scandalous Scottish women. The whole of society appears, from ordinary laborers, prostitutes and factory hands to their more celebrated sisters and even witches, bodysnatchers, and female Jacobites. The tales of these colorful characters are freshly researched and engagingly told. Step inside the boudoirs of Edinburgh’s ladies of pleasure, whose civilized manners so confused one church minister that he ‘accidentally’ took tea in a brothel. Creep into the graveyard with Helen Torrance and Jean Lapiq, convicted of bodysnatching half a century before Burke and Hare. Uncover the murky history of Scotland’s last witch Helen Duncan, whose eerily accurate wartime predictions led to her imprisonment. This book offers an exciting and erudite voyage through the social history of Scotland.
Author | : Katie Charlwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2026-05-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781804369609 |
Author | : Anne Feldhaus |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791428375 |
The essays investigate the images of women and femininity found in the traditions of the Marathi language region of India, Maharashtra, and how these images contradict the actualities of women's lives.
Author | : Maria Serena Mazzi |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0228002087 |
Prostitution is often called the oldest profession in the world. Even in the Middle Ages, people believed that there would always be women willing to use their bodies for profit. But who were these women who offered themselves up to men? In A Life of Ill Repute Maria Serena Mazzi traces and reconstructs prostitution in the early fourteenth century, describing how in medieval European society women - often extremely poor and overwhelmed by debt, or victims either of predatory men full of duplicitous intentions or simply of rape - were traded as commodities. Prostitutes, according to Mazzi, were despised and condemned but considered necessary in an ambiguous and contradictory society that tolerated their sexual exploitation to safeguard the virtue of honest women and counter the vice of homosexuality, while allowing men to vent their own impulses. The theory of the lesser evil - encouraged by both the church and the state - is the grounds on which prostitution flourished in medieval Europe. In the Middle Ages prostitution was censured and considered disgraceful, but at the same time it was deemed inevitable and even necessary. A Life of Ill Repute uncovers the hypocrisy and speciousness of ecclesiastical, political, and social arguments for the justification of the existence of public prostitution.
Author | : Carol Leigh |
Publisher | : Last Gasp |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780867195842 |
Scarlot Harlot, unrepentant whore, activist and artist, is a brazen, brainy hooker. Since the late seventies, Scarlot Harlot (a.k.a. Carol Leigh) has written, performed and produced work in a variety of genres on women's issues and on her experiences in the sex industry. Book jacket.
Author | : Mary E. Shields |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 082643536X |
In Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 the prophet employs the image of Israel as God's unfaithful wife, who acts like a prostitute. The entire passage is a rich and complex rhetorical tapestry designed to convince the people of Israel of the error of their political and religious ways, and their need to change before it is too late. As well as metaphor and gender, another important thread in the tapestry is intertextuality, according to which the historical, political and social contexts of both author and reader enter into dialogue and thus produce different interpretations. But, as Shields shows in her final chapter, it is in the end the rhetoric of gender that actually constructs the text, providing the frame, the warp and woof, of the entire tapestry, and thus the prophet's primary means of persuasion.
Author | : Sarah Whipple |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Civilization, Classical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rendell Mike |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-01-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781526791023 |
This book will look at the phenomenon of celebrity hookers in the eighteenth century - all of them the subject of extraordinary press scrutiny and comment. They were the fashion icons of the age, and what they wore was copied and put on sale in the high street within days. Many of them were passed around within the same small circle of aristocratic lovers. They were the object of constant gossip and whether they were flaunting their fame by taking a box at the opera for the entire season, or by parading through Hyde Park in a phaeton pulled by matching cream ponies, or returning from Paris wearing the very latest fashions, they enjoyed a celebrity status nowadays bestowed on TV reality stars and footballers' wives.
Author | : Phyllis A. Bird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9781575069814 |
A study of the Hebrew term qedesah, meaning "consecrated woman," but translated "prostitute" or "sacred prostitute" in English Bibles. Offers an alternative explanation suggesting a wider participation for women in Israel's early cultic practice.