| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Asia: local studies/global themes ; 21
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 21.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 "selling women" transformed communities across the archipelago. By focusing on the social implications of prostitutes' economic behavior, this study offers a new understanding of how and why women who work in the sex trade are marginalized. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- Japan -- History.
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Prostitution. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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Prostitutes -- Japan -- Social conditions.
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Prostitutes. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- Japan -- History.
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Women -- Sexual behavior. |
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Sex -- Japan -- History.
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Sex. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Female prostitution. |
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Prostitution. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Stanley, Amy, 1978- Selling women. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520270909 (DLC) 2011047050 (OCoLC)757476236 |
| ISBN |
9780520952386 (electronic book) |
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0520952383 (electronic book) |
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9780520270909 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0520270908 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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