TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stanley,Amy
TI  - Selling Women:  Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan 
T2  - Asia: local studies/global themes
SN  - 9780520270909 
AV  - HQ247.A5S73  
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Prostitutes
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Sex
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-242) and index; 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
ER  -