The courtesan's arts cross-cultural perspectives /
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Making a spectacle of her(self) : the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / James Davidson
- Cutting a good figure : the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / Margaret F. Rosenthal
- "Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / Judith T. Zeitlin
- The courtesan's voice : Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / Martha Feldman
- On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song : the Venetian case of Gaspar Stampa / Dawn De Rycke
- On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric : distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / Justin Flosi
- On music fit for a courtesan : representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Drew Edward Davies
- Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives : keepers of culture in precolonial India / Doris M. Srinivasan
- The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Bonnie Gordon
- Defaming the courtesan : satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / Courtney Quaintance
- The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan : male fantasy or female self-representation? / Christopher A. Faraone
- The city geisha and their role in modern Japan : anomaly or artistes? / Lesley Downer
- In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Miho Matsugu
- Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech
- Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero
- The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. Pilzer
- Female agency and patrilinieal constraints : situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
- Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage of North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski.