The courtesan's arts : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon.
Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial Ind...
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