| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 256 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Asia: local studies/global themes ; 21 |
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 21
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- Japan -- History
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Prostitutes -- Japan -- Social conditions
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- Japan -- History
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Sex -- Japan -- History
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Prostitutes -- Social conditions
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Prostitution
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Sex
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Women -- Sexual behavior
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Prostitution
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Frau
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Sexualverhalten
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Japan
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011047050 |
| ISBN |
9780520952386 |
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0520952383 |
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1280491981 |
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9781280491986 |
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9786613587213 |
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6613587214 |
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