Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai /

This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hershatter, Gail
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997.
Sujets:
1900-1999
Prostitution > China > Shanghai > History > 20th century.
Women > China > Shanghai > Social conditions.
Women > China > Shanghai > Economic conditions.
Prostitution.
Sex Work
Femmes > Chine > Shanghai > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Chine > Shanghai > Conditions économiques.
prostitution.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
HISTORY / Asia / General
Prostitution
Social conditions
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Frau
Prostituees.
Prostitutie.
Prostitution > Chine > Shanghai > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Shanghai (China) > History > 20th century.
Shanghai (China) > Social conditions.
China
China > Shanghai
Schanghai
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • pt. I. Histories and Hierarchies. Ch. 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering. Ch. 2. Classifying and Counting
  • pt. II. Pleasures. Ch. 3. Rules of the House. Ch. 4. Affairs of the Heart. Ch. 5. Tricks of the Trade. Ch. 6. Careers
  • pt. III. Dangers. Ch. 7. Trafficking. Ch. 8. Law and Disorder. Ch. 9. Disease
  • pt. IV. Interventions. Ch. 10. Reformers. Ch. 11. Regulators. Ch. 12. Revolutionaries
  • pt. V. Contemporary Conversations. Ch. 13. Naming. Ch. 14. Explaining. Ch. 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia
  • Glossary of Chinese Characters.

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