Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society
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Author(s)Kirsten Pullen
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521541026
ISBN-139780521541022
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,630,645
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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The categories of "whore" and "actress" have overlapped over centuries. Actresses are assumed to be sexually available and promiscuous, and prostitutes are assumed to perform for their clients. Employing historical biographies as well as interviews with contemporary sex workers, this book compares actresses and prostitutes from Nell Gwynne to Mae West. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, Kirsten Pullen offers many new insights to theater historians and scholars of cultural, social and gender studies.