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Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution (Paperback)
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Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution (Paperback)
Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
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Examining freewomen in Mesopotamian society, ancient Greek hetaira,
Renaissance Italy courtesans, historical and modern Japanese
geisha, and the Hindu devadasi of India, Stephanie Lynn Budin makes
a wide-ranging study of independent women who have historically
been dismissed as prostitutes. The purpose of this book is to
rectify a well-entrenched misunderstanding about a category of
women existing throughout world history-women who were not (and are
not) under patriarchal authority, here called "Freewomen." Having
neither father nor husband, and not being bound to any religious
authority monitoring their sexuality, these women are understood to
be prostitutes, and the terminology designating them appears as
such in dictionaries and common parlance. This book examines five
case studies of such women: the Mesopotamian harimtu, the Greek
hetaira, the Italian cortigiana "onesta", the Japanese geisha, and
the Indian devadasi. Thus the book goes from the dawn of written
history to the present day, from ancient Europe and the Near East
through modern Asia, comparatively examining how each of these
cultures had its own version of the Freewoman and what this meant
in terms of sexuality, gender, and culture. This work also
considers the historiographic infelicities that gave rise and
continuance to this misreading of the historic and ethnographic
record. This engaging and provocative study will be of great
interest to students and scholars working in Gender and Sexuality
Studies, Women's History, Classical Studies, Ancient Near Eastern
and Biblical Studies, Asian Studies, World Cultures, and
Historiography.
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