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Selling Women - Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,637
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Selling Women - Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (Hardcover)

Amy Stanley; Foreword by Matthew H. Sommer

Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, 21

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This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, it describes how the work of "selling women" transformed communities across the archipelago. By focusing on the social implications of prostitutes' economic behavior, this study offers a new understanding of how and why women who work in the sex trade are marginalized. It also demonstrates how the patriarchal order of the early modern state was undermined by the emergence of the market economy, which changed the places of women in their households and the realm at large.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, 21
Release date: June 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Amy Stanley
Foreword by: Matthew H. Sommer
Dimensions: 238 x 162 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-27090-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Prostitution
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
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LSN: 0-520-27090-8
Barcode: 9780520270909

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