Author: SALAMON, EDNA
Title: The Kept Woman - Mistresses in the '80's
Description: London, Orbis. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0856136069). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. 182 pages The author is a Canadian born daughter of a cattle rancher who gained her Ph.D in criminology at the London School of Economics and is now Assistant Professor of Criminology at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University. In this book she has turned her 160,000word dissertation from an academic thesis into a pithy book half the length. An original study in which much of the rationale of the mistress's chosen vocation is explained, how some do it for love and companionship, some for gaining status and others to avoid the competitiveness of society. C3B. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Mistresses, Kept Women 0856136069


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