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100 1 $aPullen, Kirsten.
245 10 $aActresses and whores :$bon stage and in society
/$cKirsten Pullen.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2004.
300 $axii, 215 p.
505 0 $a1. Prostitution, performance, and Mae West :
speaking from the whore position -- 2. Betty Boutell, "whom
all the town fucks" : constructing the actress/whore -- 3.
Memoir and masquerade : Charlotte Charke, Margaret Leeson,
and eighteenth-century performances of self -- 4. Burlesque,
breeches, and blondes : illegitimate nineteenth-century
cultural and theatrical performance -- 5. "We need status as
actresses!" : contemporary prostitution and performance --
6. Afterpiece : millennial prostitution.
520 1 $a"The image of the actress as prostitute has
haunted the theatrical profession since women first went on
the stage. Kirsten Pullen explores the history of this
connection both in the cultural imagination and in real
life. She shows, through case studies of women working in
Britain and the United States between the seventeenth and
twentieth centuries, that some women have drawn on the dual
tradition of "whore" as radical and victim to carve out a
space for female sexual agency. Female performers from
Elizabeth Boutell and Charlotte Charke to Mae West redefined
gender identity and appropriate female sexuality. Pullen
integrates substantial archival research and interviews with
working prostitutes with a consideration of feminist and
cultural perspectives on the myth and reality of the
actress/whore. This study offers many new insights to
theatre historians and scholars of cultural, social, and
gender studies."--BOOK JACKET.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-212)
and index.
650 0 $aActresses$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aActresses$zGreat Britain$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aProstitutes$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aProstitutes$zGreat Britain$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aFeminism and theater$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aFeminism and theater$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
