Black market business : selling sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945 /

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"Drawing on hundreds of detailed cases of sex work, this book examines the informal economy for clandestine prostitution that developed in the late colonial period in Vietnam and explores the geographic layout of Tonkin's black market sex industry; the widespread use of unfree labor in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Firpo, Christina Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Prostitution > Vietnam, Northern > 20th century.
Prostitution > Law and legislation > Vietnam, Northern > 20th century.
Human trafficking > Vietnam, Northern > 20th century.
Women > Vietnam, Northern > Social conditions > 20th century.
Traite des êtres humains > Viêt-nam (Nord) > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Viêt-nam (Nord) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
Colonial influence.
Human trafficking.
Prostitution.
Prostitution > Law and legislation.
Women > Social conditions.
Vietnam, Northern > Colonial influence.
Viêt-nam (Nord) > Influence coloniale.
Northern Vietnam.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The geography of vice: spatial dimensions of clandestine sex work
  • Venereal disease: policing the sources of infection
  • Unfree labor: debt bondage and human trafficking
  • Girls for sale: juvenile prostitution
  • Đào singers: new ways to police female performance art
  • Taxi dancers: Western culture and the urban-rural divide.

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