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“Courtesans” as a book category encompasses fiction and nonfiction that explore the lives, culture, and influence of professional companions and high-status entertainers who operated at the nexus of intimacy, art, and power. These works include biographies, social histories, memoirs, and novels about figures such as European courtesans, South Asian tawaifs, Japanese oiran, Chinese yiji, and ancient Greek hetairai, examining their roles in courts, salons, and urban entertainments. Common themes include agency and constraint, patronage and performance, love and transaction, social mobility and scandal, and the shaping of taste, politics, and art. Books in this category often illuminate gender norms, class dynamics, and moral economies while recovering voices and histories that have been glamorized, stigmatized, or misunderstood.

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