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This is a list of some professional courtesans. They are not royal mistresses , unless a professional courtesan was also a royal mistress. Separately from this list, the term "courtesan" has been used in a political context in an attempt to damage the reputation of a powerful woman or disparage her importance.
8 de abr. de 2015 · In honor of Gigi, Hollywood and Broadway’s favorite courtesan-in-training, we recall some of the most famous courtesans who came before her.
This list of prostitutes and courtesans includes famous persons who have engaged in prostitution and courtesan work.
23 de mar. de 2006 · 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. Of a different world than common prostitutes, courtesans deal in artistic and intellectual pleasures in ways that are wholly interdependent with their commerce in sex.
By considering courtesans as culture makers and spiritual figures, we can better understand gendered social hierarchies in Edo-period Japan. Ukiyo-e prints showcase women sex workers’ creative talents, as well as their powerful ability to reveal social and spiritual hypocrisy.
Etymologically the word courtesan refers to a woman attached to a royal court, a female courtier. Most often she was elegantly dressed and coiffed, beautiful, mannerly, a talented singer, dancer, or musician, and a great wit or conversationalist.
In India, this happened under the British Empire, when a Victorian ideal of female respectability pushed courtesans’ sexuality into a denigrated low-class activity. Similarly, a paper by Joshua Pilzer, a graduate student in Music, shows how the Korean kisaeng was divided in the 20th century into a new class of desexualized, state-supported performers and a world of modern prostitutes and ...
