Selling women
Subtitle: prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan
By: Amy Stanley
Series: Asia: local studies/global themes -- 21
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520270909
Subjects: Women; Sexual behavior; Prostitutes; Social conditions; Sex; Prostitution; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adulterous prostitutes, pawned wives, and purchased women: female bodies as currency; title: Creating "prostitutes": benevolence, profit, and the construction of a gendered order; title: Negotiating the gendered order: prostitutes as daughters, wives, and mothers; title: From household to market: child-sellers, "widows," and other shameless people; title: Glittering hair ornaments and barren fields: prostitution and the crisis of the countryside; title: Tora and the "rules of the pleasure quarter"; title: Conclusion.