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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"brothel"”.
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The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings
… paintings from the Dutch Golden Age represent brothel scenes. These include Dirck van Baburen's The Procuress (1622), Hendrik Pot's Vanity (c. 1633), Nicolaus Knüpfer's Brothel Scene (c. 1650), and Frans van Mieris's Brothel Scene (c. 1658). Many of these--indeed all of the works just …
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Brothels in the marketplace of ideas: Toward a heuristic definition of commercial speech
Nevada's legal brothels offer a unique opportunity to study the problem of defining commercial speech. Although state law forbids advertisements of houses of prostitution in counties where brothels themselves are against law, brothel messages are abundant in Clark County, where any form of …
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Une certain équivoque? A study of Vincent van Gogh's ambivalent engagement with prostitution, highlighted by the 1888 Courrier Français controversy
… of 1888. Focusing on the artist's responses to brothel sketches sent to him by Émile Bernard in 1888, this paper proposes their overlooked contingency with a censorship controversy that attended the publication of Louis Legrand's full-page lithograph, Prostitution, first published in Le Courrier …
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Lucy Negro, Redux
… Elizabethan figure Black Luce--a notorious brothel owner--and William Shakespeare, by Professor Duncan Salkeld of the University of Chichester. A grant from the University of Mississippi yielded an opportunity for on-site research with Dr. Salkeld in order to explore Bridewell Prison …
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Desire, Capital, Race and History at K Sello Duiker and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s Cape
… bars, as well as the upmarket massage-parlour-brothel that he works for, a place initially brimming with the possibility of sexual and racial utopia. Disillusioned with the liberatory promise of a ‘gay identity’ and its unfulfilled expectations, he walks away from the predominantly white city …
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The breaking of boundaries in microtheatre
… as a project carried out in an abandoned brothel situated in one of the Gran Via’s side streets. The Gran Via is a very important main street in the centre of Madrid. It is a place of glamour, ostentation, and money, the home to a number of Western conventional and mainstream as well as …
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Real places and impossible spaces: Foucault's Heterotopia in the fiction of James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald
… the garden, the library, the museum, the brothel, the ship, and the mirror. Here, however, I argue that the heterotopia was never intended as a tool for the study of real urban places, but rather pertains to fictional representations of these sites, which allow authors to open up …
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Sex and Gasoline: Selling Sex in Twentieth Century America
… sex tourism and fetish paraphernalia as well a brothel industry. The United States came into its own in terms of the sex industry at the same time the nation first really stepped on to the world's stage, becoming part of the international industrial revolution. The sex industry has always been …
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Inclusion, Exclusion, and Negotiations: A Study of Escort Workers and Boundary-Work
… hierarchy, are less likely than their street and brothel counterparts to report victimization and stigmatization, and are more likely to earn higher wages and use safe-sex practices. In light of these significant variations in work-related experiences, I use the boundaries framework and study …
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The influence of alchemy and Rosicrucianism in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The tempest, and Ben Jonson's The alchemist
… "seed of gold" within them, even in a degraded brothel. The Spiritr now grown to strength, is able to reunite the other component of Everyman, Body and Soul, the parents, who have completed their purification. The Tempest represents Shakespeare's complete mastery of his alchemical theme. The …
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Revolutions and 'Rough Cuts': Bodily Technologies for Regulating Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
… is disciplined through the spatial cleansing of brothel sites and, after 1979, in the official promotion of temporary marriages to assist in controlling the rise of prostitution. I establish that through the processes of sexualization and desexualization, modification and erasure, and denial and …
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Flying' Female Sex Workers in Kolkata, India: Using "Cultural Biography" to Understand HIV Risk Perceptions
… of these women, and particularly those in non-brothel based or flying sex work in India. In addition, the differential risk of HIV incidence among different types of sex workers based on specific features of their working situations (e.g., contexts, routines and health-seeking practices) …