Stanley, Amy,  1978- <br/><br/>
Selling Women :   Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan  

 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2012. 
 - xxii, 256 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
 - Asia: local studies/global themes ;  21 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-242) and index. 
<br/><br/>Adulterous prostitutes, pawned wives, and purchased women: female bodies as currency --  Creating "prostitutes": benevolence, profit, and the construction of a gendered order --  Negotiating the gendered order: prostitutes as daughters, wives, and mothers --  From household to market: child-sellers, "widows," and other shameless people --  Glittering hair ornaments and barren fields: prostitution and the crisis of the countryside --  Tora and the "rules of the pleasure quarter" --  Conclusion. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520270909  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011047050 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prostitution--History.--Japan<br/>Prostitutes--Social conditions.--Japan<br/>Women--Sexual behavior--History.--Japan<br/>Sex--History.--Japan
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ247.A5S73