Selling women : prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanley, Amy, 1978-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Series:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 21.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.