Nonfiction. WHORE CARNIVAL is Shannon Bell's feminist genealogy of prostitution, linking the ancient Greek "hetaera"--the holy courtesan--to the sex industry workers of postmodern Babylon. In these interviews, pleasure texts and "cuntceptual" essays you'll meet the Art Tart and the Slut Goddess, the Scarlot Harlot and the Marquesa, the Dean of Students at the Academy For Boys Who Want To Be Girls, the Mistress of the House of Domination, and many more magical whores and hustlers, sex artists and porno-politicos, all of them with an eye--or some other body part--on the orgiastic issues of sexual and social insurrection.

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Dr. Shannon Bell is a performance philosopher who lives and writes philosophy-in-action. Her books include: Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body (Indiana University Press, 1994); WHORE CARNIVAL (Autonomedia, 1995); Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision, Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell and Becki Ross (University of Toronto Press, 1997); New Socialisms: Futures Beyond Globalization, eds. Robert Albritton, Shannon Bell, John R. Bell and Richard Westra (Routledge, 2004); and FAST FEMINISM (Autonomedia, 2010). Bell is an associate professor in Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. She teaches modern and postcontemporary theory, cyberpolitics, postidentity politics, aesthetics and politics, violent philosophy and fast feminism.