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Kushner, Nina Joanne.

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Unkept women: Elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris, 1747--1771 (France).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Unkept women: Elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris, 1747--1771 (France)./
Author:	Kushner, Nina Joanne.
Description:	271 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1919.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3174830
ISBN:	0542131455

Unkept women: Elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris, 1747--1771 (France).
Kushner, Nina Joanne.

Unkept women: Elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris, 1747--1771 (France). - 271 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1919.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2005.

This dissertation examines the social structure and organization of elite commercial sexuality in mid eighteenth-century Paris focusing specifically on the dames entretenues. Dames entretenues were kept women or mistresses. They supported themselves by engaging in long-term sexual and companionate relationships with wealthy or socially important men. This study explores the world of elite prostitution through the question of how dames entretenues were made. It attempts to understand prostitution from within the context of the institutions that informed daily life in Paris in this period. Most dames entretenues became prostitutes because they had lost access to those social networks on which young working women were dependent for economic and social survival. Often, they were ejected from their family or community for illicit sexual behavior. Despite such disadvantaged beginnings, the most successful among them were able to become independent heads of household and live in a material comfort with a degree of financial and sexual freedom unknown to women of such humble origins. Some were able to use their wealth and celebrity to marry. In part, their ability to succeed as kept women was a function of the professionalization of elite prostitution. It operated according to clear and well known rules. These rules assumed that contracts and patterns of authority worked the same way in the demimonde as they did in the world of licit business. Police magistrates supported this view by ruling on contract violations. Police investigators also helped to maintain this perception. They a devoted a unit to spying on the dames entretenues. In compiling their reports, investigators relied heavily on madams of elite brothels for information which the police then processed only very lightly before passing it on to their superiors. In doing so, they reified the norms and business protocols of the demimonde. It is clear that the police did no more than monitor events. Elite prostitutes were not policed by anything other than rules which governed their profession. The most serious policing they faced was that which happened at the family and community level. Becoming a kept woman was often a response to that policing.

ISBN: 0542131455Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Unkept women: Elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris, 1747--1771 (France).
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