Sexscapes of Pleasure

Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

Elena Zambelli (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-573-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Political and Moral Economy of Women’s Sexuality in Italy

Chapter 2. Women Pole Dancing for ‘Pleisure’

Chapter 3. Women Pole/Lap Dancing Professionally

Chapter 4. Women Selling Sex

Chapter 5. Sexscapes in the Matrix of Domination

Conclusions

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-573-1 / 1836955731
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-573-3 / 9781836955733
Zustand	Neuware