Whoring Through The Ages: A History Of Harlotry
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few topics have shaped civilisation as profoundly — or as quietly — as the world's oldest profession, and Whoring Through the Ages: A History of Harlotry confronts that truth with unflinching candour. Spanning cultures and centuries, this irreverent yet illuminating work chronicles the social, economic, and political forces that governed the lives of women who lived and worked at the margins of respectability, from the sacred temple prostitutes of ancient Mesopotamia to the regulated brothels of Victorian Europe. Written with a wry and knowing voice, the work presents harlotry not as a footnote to history but as a lens through which power, gender, and morality can be examined with remarkable clarity. Zachary Quill argues that understanding the history of prostitution is, in essence, understanding the history of society itself — its hypocrisies, its hierarchies, and its hungers. Illustrated throughout, this volume is a provocative and surprisingly scholarly companion for anyone willing to look honestly at the world as it has always been.
Author: Zachary Quill
Format: Paperback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few topics have shaped civilisation as profoundly — or as quietly — as the world's oldest profession, and Whoring Through the Ages: A History of Harlotry confronts that truth with unflinching candour. Spanning cultures and centuries, this irreverent yet illuminating work chronicles the social, economic, and political forces that governed the lives of women who lived and worked at the margins of respectability, from the sacred temple prostitutes of ancient Mesopotamia to the regulated brothels of Victorian Europe. Written with a wry and knowing voice, the work presents harlotry not as a footnote to history but as a lens through which power, gender, and morality can be examined with remarkable clarity. Zachary Quill argues that understanding the history of prostitution is, in essence, understanding the history of society itself — its hypocrisies, its hierarchies, and its hungers. Illustrated throughout, this volume is a provocative and surprisingly scholarly companion for anyone willing to look honestly at the world as it has always been.