Title: Women for hire
Subtitle: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850
First published: 1990
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.
Subjects: Prostitution, History, Prostitution, france, France, history, 19th century, France, history, 20th century, Sex Work
Places: France
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century
LC classification: HQ194 .C6513 1990