description: Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.
language: English
title: Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
titlecomplete: Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
genres: France, Academic, Sex Work, Nonfiction, 19th Century, History
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Harvard University Press