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The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660-1714 - Political Pornography and Prostitution (Paperback)
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The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660-1714 - Political Pornography and Prostitution (Paperback)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution
to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important
and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political
pornography. This book further advances our understanding of
pornography's importance in seventeenth-century England by
extending its investigation beyond the realm of cultural rhetoric
into the realm of cultural practice. In addition to the satires
which previous scholars have discussed in this context, Mowry
brings to light hitherto unexamined pornographies as well as
archival texts that reveal the ways in which the satires helped
shape the social policies endured by prostitutes and bawds. Her
study includes substantial archival evidence of prostitution from
the Middlesex Sessions and the Bridewell Courtbooks. Mowry argues
that Stuart partisans cultivated representations of bawds and
prostitutes because polemicists saw the public sale of sex as
republicanism's ideological apotheosis. Sex work, partisans
repeatedly asserted, inherently disrupted ancestral systems of
property transfer and distribution in favour of personal ownership,
while the republican belief that all men owned the labour of their
body achieved a nightmarish incarnation in the prostitute's
understanding that the sexual favours she performed were labour.
The prostitute's body thus emerged in the loyalist imagination as
the epitome of the democratic body politic. Carefully grounded in
original research, The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660-1714
is a cultural study with broad implications for the way we
understand the historical constructions and legal deployments of
women's sexuality.
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