A first class historical survey about the world's oldestes profession.
Author(s): Nickie Roberts
Publisher: Grafton/HarperCollins Publishers
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 380
City: London
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Author's Note
A Personal Introduction: Another Hidden History
1 Origins: the Goddess and the Whore
2 Classical Attitudes: Wives, Slaves and Whores
3 The Roman Circus: the Imperial Sex Trade
4 The Dark Ages: the Martyrdom of Sexuality
5 The Roaring Trade: Prostitution in Medieval Europe
6 An Unholy Trinity: Organized Prostitution, the Crown and the Church
7 Splendours and Miseries: Prostitution in the Renaissance and Reformation
Images - Set 1
8 Feign'd Tears and Forg'd Smiles: Prostitutes' Lives in the 16th and 17th Centuries
9 Almighty Curtezan: the Triumph of the Aristocracy
10 The Age of Debauchery: 18th-Century Europe
11 Old World, New World: 19th-Century Prostitution on Two Continents
12 Madonnas and Magdalens: the Whore-Stigma in the 19th Century
13 'Shame, Shame, Horror!': Abolitionism and the Struggle for Social Purity
Images - Set 2
14 Prostitution in a Free Society: the 20th Century
15 Women in Danger: Prostitution Now
16 Coming Out of Stigma: Contemporary Whores and the Creation of a Movement
Afterword: Abolition - the Way Forward
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
