Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9780801470691
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Prostitution -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century;

Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. Kushner's primary sources include thousands of folio pages of dossiers and other documents generated by the Paris police.


Nina Kushner is Associate Professor of History at Clark University.

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