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Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes)
Selling Women Prostitution Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Author: Amy Stanley
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 archipe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520270909
ISBN-10: 0520270908
Publication Date: 6/19/2012
Pages: 282
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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