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  • There's a good chapter in _Women Making Music_ Bowers and Tick called Courtesans, Muses, or Musicians?

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

  • Call-Girls and Courtesans: Getting An Education in 2009 and 1570 digg

    Lapham's Quarterly: Call-Girls and Courtesans: Getting An Education in 2009 and 1570 2009

  • Jeannette Catsoulis: Highway Courtesans reveals the tangle of a culture where sex and economics are inextricably intertwined and Bollywood movies perpetuate images that glamorize prostitution.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/4. 2006

  • Of course if Dennis were to get the nomination and was actually elected, there is nothing to stop the electoral college or the Supreme Courtesans from installing somebody else anyway.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Kucinich Killing All Comers in DFA Poll of 119,000 2007

  • It started off relatively sane, with Warriors of Titan and Wizards of Mimas, turned alliterative and a little odd with Courtesans of Callisto, and then completely off-the-wall with Go-Go Dancers of Ganymede and Eunuchs of Europa.

    Contemplating Science Fiction « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2007

  • Courtesans once held a place in Venetian society that could occasionally border on the exhalted, as the careers of brilliant women like the famed Veronica Franco illustrate.

    Veniceblog: 2004

  • Courtesans once held a place in Venetian society that could occasionally border on the exhalted, as the careers of brilliant women like the famed Veronica Franco illustrate.

    Prostitution in The Piazza 2004

  • This is in addition to the Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, James Davidson's Courtesans and Fishcakes (you have NO idea how hard it was for me to get this), and a book on Vikings (yay!)

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • This is in addition to the Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, James Davidson's Courtesans and Fishcakes (you have NO idea how hard it was for me to get this), and a book on Vikings (yay!)

    Harry Who? 2005

  • "James Davidson's Courtesans and Fishcakes you have NO idea how hard it was for me to get this"

    Harry Who? 2005

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