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Selling Women : Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan /
This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, it describes how the work of "...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; A note on currency and prices; Introduction; Part one: Regulation and the Logic of the Household; Chapter 1. Adulterous prostitutes, pawned Wives, and purchased Women: female bodies as currency; Chapter 2. Creating "prostitutes": benevolence, profit, and the construction of a gendered order; Chapter 3. Negotiating the gendered order: prostitutes as daughters, wives, and mothers; Part two: expansion and the Logic of the Market.