Selling songs and smiles : the sex trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan /

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"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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goodwin, Janet R., 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
To 1500
Geschichte 794-1333.
Prostitution > Japan.
Prostitution > Japan > History > To 1500.
Women > Japan > Social conditions > To 1500.
Prostitution > Japon > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes > Japon > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1500.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Prostitution
Women > Social conditions
Prostitutie.
Japan
Japan.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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