Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France by Charles Bernheimer

Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France

Charles Bernheimer

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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 ambiva...

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