Audio disc contains: musical recordings that exemplify some of the music-making carried out by courtesans discussed in the book.
Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music…
"The great courtesans charmed some of Europe's most illustrious men, gaining riches, power, education, and sexual freedom in a time when most women were denied all of these. They inspired artists and writers from Praxiteles to Proust. [This book] tells the story of these women, …
Feminist writer Griffin takes a provocative look at the pleasure-filled world of the West's first female power brokers, whose lively liaisons brought them unspoken influence, wealth, and freedom. 15 photos & line drawings.
Griffin traces the role and influence of coutesans in Western society from Mme. de Pompadour to Liane de Pougy to Sarah Bernhardt.
Griffin traces the role and influence of coutesans in Western society from Mme. de Pompadour to Liane de Pougy to Sarah Bernhardt.
The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta--the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return …