161905535X     

371937957                        

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Selling women : prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan / Amy Stanley; foreword by Matthew H. Sommer

Stanley, Amy, 1978-

Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] : University of California Press, c2012

XXII, 256 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 24 cm

Englisch

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.

Formerly CIP Uk. - 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

0-520-27090-8 ((hbk.) £34.95); 978-0-520-27090-9 ((hbk.) £34.95)

016035086

9780520270909

672684896

OCoLC: 802657042     

OCoLC: 802657042 (aus SWB)     

HQ247.A5

306.740952     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 71.67 (Sexualität als soziales Problem) ; 71.25 (Sexualität) <Soziologie> ; 71.33 (Frau) <Soziologie> ; 15.80 (Japan) <Geschichte>

*Japan ; Frau ; Prostitution ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1600-1875     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Prostitution -- Japan -- History ; Prostitutes -- Japan -- Social conditions ; Women -- Sexual behavior -- Japan -- History ; Sex -- Japan -- History

Prostitution / Japan / History ; Prostitutes / Japan / Social conditions ; Women / Sexual behavior / Japan / History ; Sex / Japan / History

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