"Money for which my Buttocks had labored so vigorously": John Locke and Sexual Labor in The London Jilt

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2022.0013

Yoojung Choi

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Abstract:What if a prostitute had expressed the idea of individual rights to property based on labor, even before John Locke? The London Jilt presents Cornelia, a prostitute who endorses her stigmatized job on the grounds that sexual labor is the same as any other profession. By analyzing self-ownership embodied in the prostitute figure, I claim that The London Jilt significantly anticipates Locke's labor theory. Cornelia adopts the emerging discourse of labor and property and situates prostitutes as economic subjects who turn female sexuality into profits. This fiction also reveals marriage is an unfair financial trade that exploits women's sexual labor.

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“钱，我的屁股辛辛苦苦地工作”:约翰·洛克和《伦敦抛弃》中的性劳动

摘要:如果在约翰·洛克之前，一个妓女就已经表达了基于劳动的个人财产权利的观点，那会怎么样?《伦敦弃儿》讲述了妓女科妮莉亚(Cornelia)的故事，她认同自己被污名化的工作，理由是性劳动和其他职业一样。通过对妓女形象所体现的自我所有权的分析，我认为《伦敦弃婴》对洛克的劳动理论有重要的预见。科妮莉亚采用了新兴的劳动和财产话语，将妓女定位为经济主体，将女性的性行为转化为利润。这部小说还揭示了婚姻是一种剥削女性性劳动的不公平的金融交易。

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