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Figures of Ill Repute
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Figures of Ill Repute (1989) (edit title/settings)

Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France

by Charles Bernheimer (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body.... read more

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In the summer of 1818 the freighter Arthur took on a cargo of poudrette, a fertilizer composed of dried and pulverized fecal matter, for transport from Rouen to Guadeloupe.

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  1. Charles Bernheimer (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0674301153
Page Count: 352

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  1. 19th century, 
  2. art, 
  3. france, 
  4. non-fiction, 
  5. paris, 
  6. prostitution, 
  7. women 

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