Whore Carnival
Nonfiction. WHORE CARNIVAL is Shannon Bell's feminist genealogy of prostitution, linking the ancient Greek "hetaera"-the holy courtesan - to the sex industry workers of post-modern Babylon. In these interviews, pleasure texts and "cuntceptual" essays you'll meet the Art Tart and the Slut Goddess, the Scarlot Harlot and the Marquesa, the Dean of Students at the Academy For Boys Who Want To Be Girls, the Mistress of the House of Domination, and many more magical whores and hustlers, sex artists and porno-politicos, all of them with an eye - or some other body part - on the orgiastic issues of sexual and social insurrection.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1570270228
ISBN13:9781570270222
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Autonomedia
Length:287 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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a genealogy of porn/prostitution
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
"Whore Carnival" is an interesting look at erotic discourse in the context of prostitution and the porn industry. Various interviews with strippers, porn stars, and prostitutes shed light upon an industry that many of us bawk at, yet love at the same time. Bell is not your typical run of the mill feminist lambasting the porn industry, rather, she takes a look at the powerful discourse given to the erotic in the various medium she addresses. the book is a humorous account of many serious subjects. a good read, but not for the morally light at heart.
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