Selling songs and smiles : the sex trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan /
"Selling Songs and Smiles explores female sexual entertainment ("songs and smiles") during Japan's Heian and Kamakura periods, examining the gradual construction of a transgressive identity ("prostitute") for women engaged in the sex trade. Over some four hundred years,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Periods of Japanese history
- Introduction
- 1. Delightful sirens and delighted patrons
- 2. Defining transgression
- 3. Sacred sex and sexual pollution? : Asobi, shamans, and bodhisattvas
- 4. Constructing the prostitute.