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Whores in History : Prostitution in Western Society by Roberts, Nickie, 1949- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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'If prostitution is the world's oldest profession, then men writing about it is certainly the second oldest.' It was to retrieve an important part of women's history from the hands of male writers - who have defined prostitution from their own point of view as the client sex - that Nickie Roberts undertook this invigorating blend of social history and sexual politics. In her far-reaching narrative account, the author proclaims herself unreservedly on the side of the. Unrepentant whore, the most maligned woman in history. From the high-ranking temple whores of Egypt and the courtesans of Ancient Greece and Rome, she tells the story of the prostitute with liberal quotations from contemporary sources and anecdotes of bawdy-house and brothel life. She shows how, in the Middle Ages, the Church exploited the sex industry to build churches out of the proceeds; she describes the high-class cortegiane of Renaissance Italy, the French maisons. De tolerance and the lives of the grandes horizontales; and she analyses the Victorian denial of female sexuality (which enabled the bourgeois male to concentrate exclusively on his own) and the double standards of conventional attitudes. In the 20th-c
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- Author
- Roberts, Nickie, 1949-
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780586200292
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Fiction, Sociology
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (52 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14