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Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society

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Management number 233520736 Release Date 2026/06/27 List Price US$10.15 Model Number 233520736
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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. Read more

ISBN10 0521541026
ISBN13 978-0521541022
Edition Illustrated
Language English
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Dimensions 5.99 x 0.52 x 9.02 inches
Item Weight 13.1 ounces
Print length 228 pages
Publication date March 14, 2005

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