Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes - Amy Stanley - Books - University of California Press - 9780520270909 - June 19, 2012
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Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes

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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, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago.


282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 19, 2012
ISBN13 9780520270909
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 282
Dimensions 153 × 234 × 22 mm   ·   534 g

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