Selling women : prostitution, markets, and the household in early modern Japan /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2012]
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| 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.