Selling women : prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan /
Stanley, Amy,1978-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2012.
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.
Prostitution
Prostitutes
Women
Sex