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Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan Volume 21
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Jun 19th, 2012
- Pages: 282
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 1.00in - 1.15lb
- EAN: 9780520270909
- Categories: • Women's Studies
About the Author
Amy Stanley is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.
Praise for this book
"An important book. . . . Illuminates governance and economic change in early modern Japan. . . . Highly recommended."--S. A. Hastings, Purdue University "Choice" (1/23/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"Vivid and engaging. . . . A compelling and meticulously researched piece on the evolving place of prostitutes in Early Modern Japanese culture."--Sam Bieler, Urban Institute "Criminal Law & Crim Justice Bks / Criminal Justice Abstracts" (1/28/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"Fascinating and often tragic. . . . Stanley's writing style is both exact and fresh. . . . This book satisfies more than the academic."--Kris Kosaka, Hokkaido International School "Japan Times" (3/3/2013 12:00:00 AM)
"Amy Stanley's book provides a detailed and informed information to recent scholarship on the topic of prostitution."-- "The Journal of Japanese Studies" (8/20/2014 12:00:00 AM)
"An exceptionally sophisticated and extensive study . . . A careful and nuanced retelling . . . lively, insightful, and unique."--David Eason "Monumenta Nipponica" (12/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)