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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goodwin, Janet R., 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.