Selling Women

Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan

By:

Amy Stanley

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Hardback

Series:

Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes

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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.

Author Biography:

Amy Stanley is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Release date Australia

June 19th, 2012

Author

Amy Stanley

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Foreword by Matthew H. Sommer

Illustrations

7 b-w photographs, 4 maps

Pages

282

Series

Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9780520270909

Product ID

19010885

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