Sexscapes of Pleasure - Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

Focusing on Italy, this book discusses how women negotiate sexuality and social status in a Western sexscape constituted by multifaceted articulations of women's sexuality, commodities and modernity. Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women's processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.

About the author

Elena Zambelli is an ethnographer with interdisciplinary expertise on gender and sexuality, race, migration, and intersecting inequalities. She currently works at Lancaster University as Senior Research Associate.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Zambelli
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781800736856
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-685-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Prostitution & Sex Trade, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour