This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores how the fictional utopia the narrators of these salacious pseudo-memoirs undermine the patriarchal hierarchies of the Ancien R???gime and propose a social model in which women form networks of mutual support to achieve wealth and personal satisfaction.
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This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores how the fictional utopia the narrators of these salacious pseudo-memoirs undermine the patriarchal hierarchies of the Ancien R???gime and propose a social model in which women form networks of mutual support to achieve wealth and personal satisfaction.
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