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Selling Women : Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia: local studies/global themes ; 21Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.Description: xxii, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520270909
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ247.A5S73
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Asian University for Women Library Non-fiction General Stacks HQ247.A5S73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 030099
Total holds: 0

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.

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