You might also like

More about Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 277 loyalty points

Book synopsis

This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled 'prostitute'. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories, images and narratives surrounding her, and her experiences, circulate transnationally. As this book will explore, the broad term prostitute can cover a variety of experiences and representations that are both repressive and also have the potential to empower women and disrupt cultural expectations. The contributors aim to consider how frequently 19 th -century narratives of female prostitution-hence the label 'fallen women'-are still recycled in contemporary visual contexts, and to understand how widespread, and in what contexts, the destigmatization of female sex work is underway on screen.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema
• Subtitle: New Takes on Fallen Women
• Author: Danielle Hipkins, Kate Taylor-Jones
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 295
• EAN: 9783319646077
• ISBN: 3319646079
• ID: 16608820
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 538 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 218 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. November 2017

Trending among others

---

---

---