Love For Sale: A World History Of Prostitution.
Ringdal, Nils Johan.
Place Published: New York, New York, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Grove Press,
Date Published: 2004.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 435 pages with Reference section plus 16 pages black and white photos. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. The book and dust jacket are FINE. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.and other curious subjects. "The exchange of sex for money is often cited as 'the world's oldest profession' and is certainly the most controversial: from Eve and Lilith to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been a lightning rod for changing notions of love, sexual identity, morality, and gender. Now eminent historian Nils Johan Ringdal delivers an authoritative and entertaining world history of this most maligned, and most persistent, form of human commerce, from the Whore of Babylon and Mary Magdalene to The Happy Hooker and the contemporary sex- worker movement. Beginning with the epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament, and ancient cultures from Greece to India and beyond, Love for Sale takes the reader on a tour through the entire recorded history of prostitution around the globe up to the modern red-light district. It shows how different societies have viewed and dealt with prostitutes-for example, how ancient Greece and Rome incorporated them into several social echelons, even the priestess class; how the rise of the courtesan in ninetenth-century Europe shaped literature (with Zola's immortal Nana), fashion, the arts, and the modern sensibility. It uncovers the first manuals of sex and seduction, and tells the stories of the British Empire's campaigns against prostitution in India and about the "comfort women" who served the armies in the Pacific theater of World War II. It closes with the rise of the sex-workers' rights movement and 'sex-positive' feminism, and a realistic look at the true risks and rewards of prostitution in the present day. Love for Sale spans a wide historical swathe armed with a lively wit and no-nonsense grasp of sex that recalls Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
ISBN: 0802117457
Book Id: 9727
Price: $21.50
